Application Lifecycle Management

Overcoming Application Development Challenges

Whether you’re part of an application development team, or a business stakeholder who depends on IT for your business-critical applications, you know first-hand some of the many challenges associated with application development. These challenges depend on the situation, but often include:

• shifting business requirements
• communication gaps between end-users and the development team
• adequately testing applications for quality and reliability
• gaining visibility into project status and delivery schedules.

These are not simple challenges to overcome; many are interrelated and involve multiple team members and stakeholders. However, by systematically improving capabilities across your team, you can achieve dramatic improvements in your project success rates, better mitigate risks and increase your overall impact to the business.

Building the right team and fostering a culture of continuous improvement is the foundation for success. But you also need the right tools and processes in place for your people to do their best work. That’s where Microsoft ® Visual Studio® Team System can help. It’s an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work more effectively together.