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Vendor Landscape: Agile ALM

ALMs for the poor, and for the rich.

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Your Challenge

  • Development methodologies and environments have proliferated, increasing complexity for the manager who needs to manage Agile development with an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool.
  • Code bases continue to increase in size, necessitating an integrated ALM tool that can manage all phases of development.
  • The cost of ALM licenses puts pressure on the budget-conscious IT leader.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • Premium offerings give the ability to customize process. Evaluate your need for, and the cost of, process customization before you make your purchase.
  • Premium products support development across the growing range of platforms and development methodologies. Assess your present and future platform needs.
  • A number of new vendors have entered the market in the last few years. Niche offerings can serve your needs at a fraction of the cost of a premium tool.
Impact and Result
  • Choose the right range of features for your development scenario.
  • Find an integrated solution that will reduce your development costs.

Get to Action

  1. Assess Agile ALM vendor feature sets and viability

    Determine which vendors best suit your Agile ALM needs.

  2. Use your requirements to set evaluation priorities

    Develop a custom shortlist based on Agile ALM criteria most important to your organization.

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    Mike Marsman - 2012-02-24

    I'm a little surprised to see that two of the industry leaders (Rally and VersionOne) are absent from this list.

    Having used several, I'd consider them both superior to any of the vendors listed here.

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      Info-Tech Research Group - 2012-02-28

      Thanks for your comment. It certainly is a good point; however, the only reason we can offer is simply that the original list of vendors we looked at was quite large. Initially we had both Rally and VersionOne on a “working list,” but since our Vendor Landscapes can't be executed using 20 vendors, it was necessary to drop the number back. When we started the process, we had 10 and ended up with 8 (due to non-responsiveness or for other reasons). When it comes time to revisit this VL, both Rally and VersionOne will get into the mix.

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