Integrated Alm For A Competitive Business Advantage

By Author: Martin Lobo
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Organizations that choose the best-of-breed tools from different vendors for different application lifecycle phases hardly have any integration. Most application development organizations spend millions of dollars a year on a large number of siloed point function tools that include requirement management, architecture, coding, build, testing, tracking, release management to name a few. With these tools using traditional manual procedures to synchronize data that usually do not play well together, most of these tools are in isolation.

Application development is becoming more and more global, and projects are increasingly involving multiple teams in disparate locations, often from multiple companies and countries. Enterprise organizations often encounter a situation where even for the same lifecycle domain people from different companies/countries with different cultures participate in application development. An integrated ALM aids ...
... in overcoming the structural challenges of working across remote locations, and also ensures that a project outcome is on time, on budget and on target with business goals.

Connecting tools has become a necessity for an organization to disseminate, implement and automate certain methodologies and best practice processes universally across the lifecycle tools. This ensures that the methodology becomes a natural part of organization’s business process. With automated and executable process models used across an integrated set of tools, it is possible to make certain that there is strict process adherence which results in achieving consistency, repeatability and predictability.

Integrating ALM tools has direct and indirect impact on the total quality. There is an enhancement in the quality as integration reduces the defects arising due to miscommunication, catching inconsistencies between requirements, enabling efficient testing, and generally ensuring that the final application meets the needs and expectations of users.

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