Mike Shepard
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Finance and Insurance
Interests
Defect or Incident Management
Requirements
Software Testing
Country
United States
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| Beyond Configuration Management into Application Lifecycle Management—Just a Change of Focus? CM is an important driver for development productivity, yet remains often overlooked when discussing how the development lifecycle could be optimized. Often, this happens because of the perceived complexity of parallel strategies and additional overhead. However, today’s CM tools offer powerful capabilities that allow users to tap into that potential. |
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| Agile ALM—Opposites AttractAgile and ALM are two terms that you don’t often see side by side. To most developers, agile means team interaction, customer collaboration, dynamism, and responsiveness to change. In contrast, ALM seems to imply the opposite of agile, with echoes of rigid procedures, inflexibility, and top-down process control. But are the agile and ALM approaches as contradictory as they first appear to be? |