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By Jennifer deJong
April 15, 2008 —
It sounds like a software version number, or a standard for toolmakers to adhere to. But the term “ALM 2.0” is neither. A play on Web 2.0 (and everything else “two point oh”), ALM 2.0 generally refers to both a more sophisticated set of application life-cycle management tools, and a more effective way of working with them than the early tool suites.
With ALM 2.0, users of design, requirements, coding, testing, release management and maintenance tools can see at a glance who is working on what, when they started working, and which requirements have been coded, tested and released, and which are still sitting in the queue. That was difficult to do with earlier offerings, now referred to as ALM 1.0. Integrations were rudimentary, largely because many ALM suites were built by acquisition. The tools within them were not designed to work together from the ground up.
The term “ALM 2.0” was coined by Forrester analyst Carrie Schwaber, who characterizes current offerings that are based on a single repository as ALM 1.5. “But we are still waiting for ALM 2.0,” she said.
— Jennifer deJong
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