Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) involves coordinating all aspects of an application's development from conception to retirement. ALM ties together development processes and defines the coordination needed between roles like business managers, developers, and operations staff. ALM helps deliver business value by ensuring software and systems meet business needs and by controlling factors that influence project success like budget, scope, and quality.

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2. Application Lifecycle Management The process an organization can use for an application or software system from its conception to its retirement.

3. Application Lifecycle Management ALM is the glue that ties the development processes together and defines the efforts necessary to coordinate the process.

4. Why do we develop Business Software and Systems ?

5. Cool Technology ASP .NET SilverLight MVC AJAX WPF Adobe AIR WCF WF XML Sharepoint

6. Clever ways of solving technical & logical problems

7. And the Business Value ?

8. Business Requirements+ Business Needs Business Value

9. Application Lifecycle Management The process that can help us deliver the Business Value

10. Why do we develop Business Software and Systems ?

11. We do not write software for an enterprise to fulfill out technological wishes alone, we write it to make the business run smoother and create more value !!!

12. Business Value Business Needs Software Development Lifecycle

13. 3 Cornerstones of Business

14. Muscle = Process

15. Brain = Business Rules

16. Spine = Information

17. Business Environment

18. Competition from everywhere

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22. Forcing businesses to become more Agile, ready to gain competitve advantages

23. Affecting the way we must architect and write business systems!

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25. Business Environment

26. Business Processes can change rapidly Supporting IT Systems must also be ready for quick changes Visual Studio Team System

27. ALM Tool Without an effective development process tied closely to the business side and supported by a set of tools, we will run into problems! Not only the ALM tools that are important, we need to consider the whole ALM process

28. Project Health Scope Budget Quality Time

29. Time

30. Budget

31. Scope

32. Factors influencing Project Success

33. Business Technology

34. Process “Cowboy” Time

35. Communication

36. Other influencing Factors Synchronization of Tools Resource Management Project Size

37. 35% Projects Succeed!

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39. Deliver better Projects

40. This overall ALM process comesa mindset focused on the application from its birth as a business need to the delivered Business Value.

41. An overall ALM process can help us control the project outcome better in the end, enabling us to deliver true Business Value

42. Project Health

43. IT Budget spending CEB Corporate Executive Board 2006

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45. Factors influencing IT spending Small Changes and Fixes Retirement of an Application Inflexible Application Architecture Infrastructure Immature / No Operations Process

46. ALM Roles Change Request or New Release Business Needs Business Value Portofolio Software Development Lifecycle Operations Retirement of System

47. Application Lifecycle Management ALM is the glue that ties all the roles and the activities they perform together

48. ALM Roles Business Manager Project Manager PMO Decision Maker Business Analyst Developers Testers Operations Staff Architect User Experience Team Database Administrators

49. 4 ALM views

50. Software Development Lifecycle View

51. ALM in SDLC Enforcement of processes that span all the activities Traceability Reporting

52. Application Lifecycle Management ALM does not support a specific activity itself. Its purpose is to keep all activities in sync.

53. Service Management View ITIL Application Development Phases Service Management Phases

54. ALM in Service Management ALM focuses on the activities that are involved with deployment, operation, support and optimization of the application

55. Application Portfolio View Business Plan The Product Lifecycle Operations Product Idea Divestment The Project Lifecycle The PMI view of ALM

56. Unified or CIO View Operations SDLC APM

57. Unified or CIO View Change Request or New Release Business Needs Business Value Portofolio Software Development Lifecycle Operations Retirement of System

58. 3 Pillars of ALM

59. Change Request or New Release Business Needs Business Value Portofolio Software Development Lifecycle Operations Retirement of System Traceability Process Automation Visibility

60. Traceability

61. Process Automation

62. Visibility

63. 1.0 ALM

64. Requirements Test Build Development Design

65. 2.0 ALM

66. “The ‘emerging’ ALM is a platform for coordination and management of development activities, not a collection of lifecycle tools with locked-in and limited ALM features” - Forrester -

68. Characteristics in ALM 2.0 Practitioner tools assembled out of plug-ins Common services available across practitioner tools Repository neutral Use of open integration standards Process support