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From Revolution to Evolution: The Case for Agile ALM
The wait is over for the next generation of ALM, as new Agile ALM tools and techniques provide a path to greater productivity. To many in the IT industry, the introduction of application lifecycle management (ALM) as a central discipline in software development ten years ago was seen as nothing short of revolutionary. But every revolution must itself confront change, in this case overcoming challenges with legacy ALM products that proved to be too monolithic, inflexible or costly to manage. Called Agile ALM, the next generation of ALM delivers an evolution towards embracing change, and focusing on what matters most: productivity and value. Read this paper to find out what is happening in the industry in regards to ALM and what you can do to take your dev teams to the next level.
IDC:Evolution to Cloud: Hybrid Cloud Drivers, Challenges, and Benefits
Emerging software quality and security issues for mobile and cloud, and emerging multimodal deployment demands, will drive application life-cycle management (ALM) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) / Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) evolution and adoption in 2012 – 2015. Ad hoc, fragmented approaches to ALM for software development will become increasingly unsustainable. Given the complexity of developing applications for mobile platforms, Big Data, and the cloud, as well as the need for quick turnaround with agile approaches, ALM adoption growth will continue strongly through 2013 and beyond. Security concerns have been a gating factor for public cloud adoption, and have helped push growth for hybrid public/private cloud strategies. Complex software program and product delivery demands will result in collaborative services, solutions, and adoption as hybrid cloud adoption emerges more strongly for enterprises and SMBs 2012 – 2014.
IDC: ALM PaaS Cloud Solutions for Governance and Business Innovation
The appeal of the overall worldwide public platform-as-a-service market is strong, and accounts for revenue of $2.2 billion in 2010 and strong annual growth of 36.3%. The outlook in this market is for continued high growth overall, but also for a fragmented, variegated market that will provide user organizations with a better arena in which to see how vendors are differentiated. In the emerging Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS, high-growth markets currently measured by IDC – ASQ SaaS / cloud testing and IT PPM SaaS – IDC expects the 2010-2015 CAGR for each area to be respectively at 31.1% (with projected 2015 ASQ SaaS / cloud testing revenue of 1.0B) and at 38.7% (with 2015 revenue projected to $534M for IT PPM SaaS). IDC expects 2012 growth in those areas to be in the very high double digits, given the key benefits that accrue for immediate access and integration across ALM products, which are all too frequently fractured. We also expect to see additional offerings and growth for other areas such as software change and configuration management (SCM) SaaS, release management with Devops solutions (coordinating development and deployment) and evolving Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) ALM offerings broadening over the next 18 to 24 months (2012 – 2014). The following questions were posed by CollabNet to Melinda Ballou, Program Director for IDC's Application Life-Cycle Management research, on behalf of CollabNet's customers.
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Building a Stronger Agile Enterprise with Subversion
How a State-of-the-Art Version Control System Supports Agile Principles. Any software development methodology depends heavily on version control, but none more than Agile. With its emphasis on faster production, flexibility, and continuous integration to drive ongoing software improvements, Agile places a premium on the quality and efficiency of version control. This paper also describes how Subversion’s features and functionality lend themselves to Agile’s values of Ease, Speed, Facilitation and Flexibility, and explains how Subversion reinforces the guiding principles of Agile that are outlined in the Agile Manifesto. Six of the 12 Agile Principles will be examined in detail.
