AN INTEGRATION-ORIENTED MODEL FOR APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Guenter Pirklbauer, Rudolf Ramler, Rene Zeilinger

2009

Abstract

In the last years a new trend emerged in the software engineering tool market: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). ALM aims at integrating processes and tools to coordinate development activities in software engineering. However, a common understanding or widely accepted definition of the term ALM has not yet evolved. Thus, companies introducing ALM are usually confronted with a wide range of solutions following different, vendor-specific interpretations. The aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of ALMand to provide guidance on how to develop an ALM strategy for software development organizations. The paper identifies key problem areas typically addressed by ALM and derives a model to relate the solution concepts of ALM to engineering and management activities. The work has been applied in the context of an improvement project conducted at an industrial company. This case shows how the model can be used to systematically develop a tailored, vendor-independent ALM solution.

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in Harvard Style

Pirklbauer G., Ramler R. and Zeilinger R. (2009). AN INTEGRATION-ORIENTED MODEL FOR APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 399-402. DOI: 10.5220/0002007203990402


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis09,
author={Guenter Pirklbauer and Rudolf Ramler and Rene Zeilinger},
title={AN INTEGRATION-ORIENTED MODEL FOR APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={399-402},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002007203990402},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - AN INTEGRATION-ORIENTED MODEL FOR APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Pirklbauer G.
AU - Ramler R.
AU - Zeilinger R.
PY - 2009
SP - 399
EP - 402
DO - 10.5220/0002007203990402