Application lifecycle management

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It’s all about a holistic approach to breaking down the silos and unifying your platforms! The goal is to deliver better software faster without sacrificing quality. But silos between all the various disciplines get in the way.

Effective ALM breaks down the silos, unifies your platforms and enables continuous delivery to rev your velocity to change while improving software quality and reducing cost.

Of course you can’t do it all at once, so you need to incrementally adopt effective ALM. With 25 years of experience developing software and best practices, IBM has identified five imperatives for you to strive for: in-context collaboration, real-time planning, lifecycle traceability, development intelligence, and continuous improvement.

A good way to either get started or extend your current capabilities and achieve the five ALM imperatives is with an integrated Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (US), now with software design for even broader collaboration and traceability.

Real results

OLM Systems (US), an agile story, improves customer satisfaction by starting with software change and quality management and test

CDPHP, a healthcare insurer (Youtube, 00:02:23) , tells how they started with quality management; incrementally rolls out software change and configuration management, increases efficiency at every step.

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s (US) (PDF, 670KB) smarter baggage handling results in 40% increase in baggage handling capacity, 80% increase in hourly baggage handling capability

Danske Bank (US), an agile story starting with change and configuration management, enhances efficiency of IT development by 10%. Reduces times to market from 14 months to nine months

Effective application lifecycle management means taking a holistic approach...

Architecture and design

Go from design to done faster

Portfolio, demand and delivery management

Doing the right things right

Build and deploy

Automate software assembly processes to streamline software and systems delivery.

Deliver and deploy software efficiently

Quality management and testing

Achieve consistency, efficiency and predictability with software quality that meets objectives and testing strategies for any platform and test type

Manage quality from concept to retirement

Requirements management

Define and manage requirements, provide traceability and alignment with business processes.

Ensure project success

Software change and configuration management

Improve insight, predictability and control of project assets along with instant, controlled access.

Manage change of project assets

Application development

Unify diverse development teams around tools optimized for enterprise, web, mobile and cloud

Deliver on business goals

Unified teams and platforms deliver quality software and services faster

Whether you are using formal and agile methods, reduce the high costs, inefficiency and risks of fragmented software development without compromising software quality with proven, integrated ALM solutions. Improve cross-project visibility and automate the flow of people, process and information in an iterative cycle of design-driven software delivery to realize a foundation across multi-platforms for business alignment, improved rationalization, ability to scale, enhanced team collaboration, automation, governance and reporting.

Featured application lifecycle management solutions

IBM Rational Software Architect Design Manager

Enhance productivity with an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution to avoid the pitfalls of working in silos with broken communication which results in project delays, low quality or budget overrun.

IBM Rational Test Workbench

test automation for complex and highly integrated applications delivering functional, regression, load and integration testing

IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server

virtualize complex systems and services to provide cost-effective 24x7 test environments

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Application development

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Build and deploy

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Portfolio demand and delivery management

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Quality management and testing

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Requirements management

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Software change and configuration management

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Featured application lifecycle management products

  • Rational Team Concert

    Provides agile and formal planning, source code management, work item management, build management, and project health.

  • Rational Requirements Composer

    Requirements management and definition using a collaborative approach, that enables stakeholders and IT teams anywhere in the world to provide input, gain clarity, better achieve consensus, and adapt to changes more quickly.

  • Rational DOORS

    Requirements management and definition using a collaborative approach, that enables stakeholders and IT teams anywhere in the world to provide input, gain clarity, better achieve consensus, and adapt to changes more quickly.

  • Rational ClearCase

    Comprehensive software configuration management for any size project.

  • Rational Buildforge

    Automates, orchestrates, manages, and tracks all the processes within the assembly line of software development.

  • Rational Quality Manager

    Provides a collaborative, integrated hub for test planning, creation, and execution as well as workflow control, tracking, traceability, and metrics for project health.

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Rational.Everywhere.

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Transform the way people work together, regardless of complexity.

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IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbook

Collaborative application lifecycle management with Rational tools

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Buyers guide

Establish strategic priorities and identify objective criteria to get the best possible solution for your needs.

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How Rational's ALM and PPM solutions can help organizations manage software and systems delivery.

ALM resources

  • Analyst report

    Analyst report

    Ovum: Selecting an application lifecycle management vendor

  • Customer video

    Customer video

    Effective ALM helps Capital District Physicians' Health Plan increase efficiency

  • Webcast

    Webcast

    Five key imperatives for ALM, a customer success story

ALM.Everywhere

IBM® Rational® solutions, powered by Jazz, deliver the IBM vision for a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management process. Presented by Carolyn Pampino, this interactive demonstration illustrates the five imperatives for Application Lifecycle Management. Rational software is uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, designed to transform how people work together to build software – making software delivery more collaborative, productive, and enjoyable.

 

Join the Agile Transformation community to learn from others who have transformed their organizations to agile software development methods. News, discussions, training and more are available to help you achieve your transformation.

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