Trends Report

Elevate The ALM Discussion To The Business Plane

Making A Compelling Argument For ALM Investment

February 7th, 2013
Tom Grant, Ph.D., null
Tom Grant, Ph.D.
With contributors:
Phil Murphy , Vivian Brown

Summary

Implementing a more effective application life-cycle management (ALM) strategy will depend on making a compelling business case for investing in changes. Buying new ALM tools, hiring new staff, and training existing employees in new methods might make the software development part of IT more efficient but won't necessarily help the organization reach its business objectives. If you want business leaders to support your proposal for improving your software development life-cycle (SDLC) processes, phrase your business case for ALM in terms of the specific business problems it solves. This report outlines how to build the business case to shed your messy, partially automated SDLC and streamline the entire process.

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