Agile Application Lifecycle Management Software

Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Focusing on Managing the Lifecycle

Application Lifecycle Management is the management of an application’s (or applications) lifecycle. Corporate IT must do this to effectively support Business. IT Services and Consulting companies do it to support their customers who depend on them to manage their apps more cost-effectively – and for reasons of time-to-market and quality. ISVs, semiconductor companies, automotive systems companies, chip design and development companies, and just about any product development organization must manage their products/ applications’ lifecycle.

Whatever be your specific context, some of the key aspects of effectively managing Application (or product) Lifecycle are fairly common across the various segments/ scenarios

Optimal allocation of funding and resources, especially skilled staff on high-priority work and managing projects to successful completion. Corporate IT and other organizations are rife with the challenge of people working on their ‘pet’ or ‘sandbox’ projects instead of working on projects that are aligned with corporate objectives. What is worse, management sometimes have no way of knowing how many such wasteful projects, duplicate/ unauthorized activities are actually going on at any point of time!
Highly collaborative and responsive software development/ implementation/ maintenance to support internal or external customers. Whether you are building applications, implementing and integrating third party products or simply maintaining a bunch of applications or products, you still need to ensure that all of the development (or engineering) work that needs to be done is accomplished in a cohesive manner. Starting with requirements or user stories, all the way up to developed/ tested/ deployed code, there is an environment based on people, processes and tools that ensures that.
Accurate prioritization and selection of the applications or products to be built or implemented or retired. Start focusing on the wrong ideas or features or apps, and your business can be hit for months or even ears while you take corrective action. This means, there must be good and consistently used processes defined for portfolio analysis – be they new ideas/ requests portfolios, project portfolios or application portfolios. Portfolio Analysis must be regularly conducted throughout the lifecycle and portfolios pruned as needed.

Digité Enterprise Agile ALM solution provides full support to the entire Application Lifecycle with integrated process governance, Project and Portfolio Management and collaborative Software Development features. It enables organizations to set up processes for all aspects of the Application Lifecycle Management, setup and manage catalogs of features/ ideas, projects and applications, and manage them cohesively. It provides users and stakeholders complete visibility at consolidated rollup information on ALM activity throughout the organization and enables dill-downs to the lowest level needed by management.

With detailed information from Digité, IT and business management can manage and optimize RoI on application development spending, prioritizing revenue-generating projects and making the most cost-effective decisions for resource allocation.

Key Features of the Digité ALM Solution:

A flexible process framework that enables organizations to define as simple or as sophisticated process templates as needed, combining a variety of software engineering models to configure true hybrid Agile processes as well as processes compliant to CMMi, PMBoK, SPICE, PRINCE2 and others.
Full featured PPM module that automatically draws from the processes defined and enables fast project, program and portfolio setup
Integrated project request/ project/ application portfolio analysis for effective funding decisions based on periodic portfolio review cycles and scoring of various investments
Integrated Issues, Risk and Document Management as also Resource and Timesheet Management
Full function SDLC modules,- Requirements Management, User Stories, Test Management, Defect Tracking, and out-of-the-box integrations to popular SCM and IDE tools such as Subversion, CVS, VSS and Eclipse and Visual Studio.
Full-function, configurable Reporting and Dashboard framework with over 60 metrics and reports at project and enterprise level out of the box
Powerful yet flexible integration framework based on Web Services and flat-file data transfer to enable easy integration with a wide variety of commercial and engineering apps.
Out of the box integrations with a wide variety of tools -
http://www.digite.com/products/integrations-with-swiftsync.html
Full flexibility to selectively use any or all functionality based on organizational and project-level requirements
Powerful underlying platform that will extend to support other related ALM and integration requirements

Some of the key components of the Digité ALM solution you may want to explore:

Customer Speak

"We get routinely asked by our customers to show them how we are able to run our projects so smoothly. We demonstrate Digite to our customers as a showcase example of our project management and process excellence."

Head - Process Excellence Group

KPIT Cummins