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	August 18, 2006 The Changing Face Of Application Life-Cycle Management Tomorrow's ALM Platforms Will Deliver On The Promise Of Today's ALM Suites by Carey Schwaber with John R. Rymer, Jacqueline Stone	Average: 9  (3 ratings)

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Executive Summary

IT organizations spend billions of dollars a year on development life-cycle tools that don't play well together. The result? For most shops, application life-cycle management (ALM) — the coordination of development life-cycle activities — is still largely a manual process. Today's ALM suites don't offer much support for ALM beyond what can be accomplished through brittle tool-to-tool integrations. But tomorrow's ALM platforms will do much better by providing common services to practitioner tools. These solutions will be easier to implement, maintain, and employ. And at the end of the day, they'll enable development organizations to build better software.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Awareness Of ALM Is High; Understanding Is Low
• How ALM Tool Support Can Help Development Organizations
• ALM 1.0 Falls Short Of The Mark
• There's Hope On The Horizon In ALM 2.0
• Single-Vendor Platforms Dominate, But Multivendor Platforms Emerge

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Start Looking For ALM 2.0 Today

WHAT IT MEANS

• The Choice Between Integrated And Best-Of-Breed Tools Won't Go Away
• Supplemental Material
• Related Research Documents

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