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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

The principles of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) are integral to mature development disciplines. Experienced development organizations employ these principles to ensure quality in the products they develop. Scoutwest, Inc. fully supports ALM in its products, Standard Issue® and Standard Time®. Here is what ALM means to us.

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Application Lifecycle Management
        Project management
        Project tracking
        Requirements planning
        Design and development
        Quality Assurance
        Release management

What is Project Management?

Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to a broad range of activities in order to meet the requirements of the particular project. A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to achieve a particular aim. Project management knowledge and practices are best described in terms of their component processes. These processes can be placed into five Process Groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling and Closing.

Project tracking:

Does your organization really know how long to expect for each project phase? Do you have pressures that demand results in time, quality, or budget? Do you know the optimal mix of time for each phase that guarantees acceptable quality within your budget of time and capital? This knowledge comes from experience and tracking actual metrics. Do you have technical instruments to help you measure these metrics? Project tracking is the microscope of the product development trade. It magnifies the details that make your product profitable.

Requirements planning
Feature requirements and version releases are delicate issues. The fragile balance of meeting customer needs in each product release is important, and must be managed closely. Releasing products without proper requirements is like attempting to hit a moving target. Your developers will aim happily at each moving target until a critical mass realizes what is happening. They'll lose faith in management because they'll know that the requirements were not planned properly. During that time, you'll lose time and miss critical market windows. There are simple tools to help in this process. Use them.

Design and development

Design is everything to a development process. The development phase is greatly simplified because the proper amount of planning was in the design phase was done correctly. Even with the designs phase leave the development phase with a certain number of unknowns. These unknowns must be worked out during the development phase. The act of redesigning during development is known as thrash, and should be kept to a minimum. Measure twice, cut once.

Quality Assurance

The function of software quality that assures that the standards, processes, and procedures are appropriate for the project and are correctly implemented. It is wise to have procedures for routing defects through the QA team to ensure that each issue is addressed, and nothing is swept under the rug. Ensuring that the system works as intended and that it meets applicable organization standards of performance, reliability, integrity and security.

Release management

Release management defines the model to ensure the "deploy once run from everywhere" promise can be realized in the SOA environment that becomes exponentially more complicated as services are added. After the initial release of a product is complete, you as a company have the burden of ensuing that each subsequent release meet your customer needs. Again, this is a delicate balance. Management and the Development team will indicate the duration of time that each feature may take. Management can use this to stack up features for each release, and maintain critical release windows.

How Standard Issue® and Standard Time® can help
Standard Issue® and Standard Time® are designed as one-stop solutions for managing Application Lifecycle Management processes. The products do not force a rigid methodology onto your organization, and may be configured to meet your existing processes. They are designed for simplicity so that employees enjoy using them. This ensures that your organization gets more data, and more accurate data. Standard Issue® manages requirements gathering, defect and issue management, release management, and quality assurance testing. Standard Time® manages project planning, project tracking, and time and expense tracking. If your management and development organization is weak in these areas, you should begin to formalize and improve your processes. The time you spend learning these disciplines will help your organization, and help your career.

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