To get started, we can assess the current state of your application lifecycle by doing an ALM assessment which enables you to:

• Compare your development infrastructure against industry best practices and the latest IT research.
• Measure the effectiveness of your current development infrastructure in platform-agnostic terms.
• Use your results to prioritize your IT investments and help your organization thrive and continue to grow.

ALM creates measurable process improvement

Introducing ALM at your organization can help you deliver improved business value to your customers and even provide an additional competitive advantage. Process improvement stems from improved integration, so you are no longer wasting time and effort with disparate tools and duplicated data.

You can expect to see:

• Stronger collaboration between business and IT, resulting in better alignment of IT and business goals.
• Increased accountability, enabling stricter compliance with governance initiatives.
• Improved project management, including better estimation, tracking, and reporting through a single, unified view of the project.
• Quality improvements, so the final application meets the requirements of your customers and quality of service requirements.
• Shorter development cycles and improved productivity through shared best practice and process learning.
• Increased ability of the IT department to rapidly build and adapt applications to support dynamically changing business requirements.

How to get started with ALM?

You can begin an online ALM assessment right away. Euricom as a preferred Microsoft ALM partner can conduct an on-site assessment that will:

• Create a baseline measurement of the current development capability. 
• Surface existing best practices.
• Uncover opportunities for improvement.
• Identify the most impactful areas to the business.
• Generate a preliminary road map to implement improvements.