This document discusses optimizing development and outsourcing for modern applications. It describes how modern apps require a modern lifecycle with continuous feedback, quality, and delivery from ideation to working software in production. This modern app lifecycle includes defining requirements, developing and testing, implementing, monitoring, and delivering software that always meets user expectations.

1. Optimize your Development
and/or Outsourcing for
Modern Apps

2. Trends

3. Modern Apps

4. Modern Apps need a Modern Lifecycle
Continuous Feedback Continuous Quality Continuous DeliveryDefine Develop Operate

5. Modern Apps need a Modern Lifecycle
Define
Develop
Operate
Working software in production
Idea to working software
Ideation
REQUIREMENTS
WORKING SOFTWARE

6. 6 | Building an Engineering Organization for Continuous Delivery
Modern App Lifecycle
Define
Ideation
Develop
and Test
Idea to working
software
REQUIREMENTS
MonitorImplement
WORKING SOFTWARE
Business alignment on
requirements
Value analytics
Deployment efficiencies
Reducing MTTR
• Balancing agility and
quality
• Integrating distributed
and cross-platform
teams
Deliver software that always
meets user expectations
Microsoft
ALM
Quality Enablement
DevOps
Agile Planning
Quality Enablement
Team Collaboration

7. Magic Quadrant
Gartner ALM 2012
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1ASCXON&ct=120606&st=sb