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ALM defines coordinated management of planning, development, testing, deployment and operation of applications to ensure quality and traceability.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) defines coordination, governance and practices across planning, development, testing, deployment and operation of software. It integrates processes, roles and tools to provide traceability, quality assurance and continuous improvement across an application's lifetime. ALM supports release and rollback decision-making.
measures how often deployments occur to production; indicator of throughput
time from commit to successful deployment; shows pipeline efficiency
share of changes causing failures requiring hotfixes or rollbacks
company uses ALM principles combined with Azure DevOps for traceability and release automation
community organizes releases, CI checks and changelog processes to ensure software quality
small vendor rolls out automated tests and simple release policies incrementally to reduce risk
assess current processes and tools
pilot a minimal ALM pipeline in one product team
scale with standardization, governance and metrics