Behaviorally Speaking – Using ALM to Drive DevOps

DevOps focuses on helping the development and operations teams work together more effectively by enabling better communication and collaboration. One way that this is accomplished is by moving the application build, package and deployment upstream, allowing operations to more effectively participate in automating the entire deployment pipeline earlier in the lifecycle and as well as gain the requisite knowledge required to understand how to support the application. DevOps clearly works well and both development and operations benefit from DevOps best practices. But there are other essential stakeholders who can also benefit from improved communication and collaboration, including information security, QA and testing. The fact is that every stakeholder, from the business analyst to the DBA, needs to understand their particular role and assigned tasks as well as the work being accomplished by other members of the team. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides the structure and framework that ensures that every member of the team knows what they need to accomplish and how to communicate effectively with the other members of the team. This article explains how the ALM can drive DevOps!

read more