Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using DevOps to Drive Process Improvement

Integrate Agile ALM and DevOps to Build Better Software and Systems at Lower Cost

Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a comprehensive development lifecycle that encompasses essential Agile principles and guides all activities needed to deliver successful software or other customized IT products and services. Flexible and robust, Agile ALM offers “just enough process” to get the job done efficiently and utilizes the DevOps focus on communication and collaboration to enhance interactions among all participants.

Agile Application Lifecycle Management offers practical advice and strategies for implementing Agile ALM in your complex environment. Leading experts Bob Aiello and Leslie Sachs show how to fully leverage Agile benefits without sacrificing structure, traceability, or repeatability.

You’ll find realistic guidance for managing source code, builds, environments, change control, releases, and more. The authors help you support Agile in organizations that maintain traditional practices, conventional ALM systems, or siloed, non-Agile teams. They also show how to scale Agile ALM across large or distributed teams and to environments ranging from cloud to mainframe.

Coverage includes

• Understanding key concepts underlying modern application and system lifecycles
• Creating your best processes for developing your most complex software and systems
• Automating build engineering, continuous integration, and continuous delivery/deployment
• Enforcing Agile ALM controls without compromising productivity
• Creating effective IT operations that align with Agile ALM processes
• Gaining more value from testing and retrospectives
• Making ALM work in the cloud, and across the enterprise
• Preparing for the future of Agile ALM

Today, you need maximum control, quality, and productivity, and this guide will help you achieve these capabilities by combining the best practices found in Agile ALM, Configuration Management (CM), and DevOps. 

整合敏捷的應用生命週期管理（Agile ALM）和DevOps，以更低成本建立更好的軟體和系統

敏捷的應用生命週期管理（Agile ALM）是一個全面的開發生命週期，包含了重要的敏捷原則，並指導所有交付成功的軟體或其他定制的IT產品和服務所需的所有活動。靈活而強大的敏捷ALM提供了「足夠的流程」以高效完成工作，並利用DevOps專注於溝通和協作，以增強所有參與者之間的互動。

《敏捷的應用生命週期管理》提供了在複雜環境中實施敏捷ALM的實用建議和策略。領先的專家Bob Aiello和Leslie Sachs展示了如何充分利用敏捷的好處，而不會犧牲結構、可追溯性或可重複性。

您將找到管理原始碼、構建、環境、變更控制、發布等方面的現實指導。作者幫助您在保持傳統實踐、傳統ALM系統或孤立的非敏捷團隊的組織中支持敏捷。他們還展示了如何在大型或分散的團隊以及從雲端到主機的各種環境中擴展敏捷ALM。

內容包括：

- 理解現代應用和系統生命週期的關鍵概念
- 創建最佳流程以開發最複雜的軟體和系統
- 自動化構建工程、持續整合和持續交付/部署
- 在不影響生產力的情況下執行敏捷ALM控制
- 創建與敏捷ALM流程相符的有效IT運營
- 從測試和回顧中獲得更多價值
- 在雲端和企業中使ALM運作
- 為敏捷ALM的未來做好準備

今天，您需要最大的控制、品質和生產力，本指南將幫助您通過結合敏捷ALM、配置管理（CM）和DevOps中找到的最佳實踐來實現這些能力。