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The application development life cycle management (ADLM) tool market focuses on the planning and governance activities of the software development life cycle (SDLC). ADLM products focus on the 'development' portion of an application's life. Key elements of an ADLM solution include: software requirements definition and management, software change and configuration management, software project planning, with a current focus on agile planning, work item management, quality management, including defect management. Other key capabilities include: reporting, workflow, integration to version management, support for wikis and collaboration, strong facilities for integration to other ADLM tools.

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Application Development Life Cycle Management (Transitioning to DevOps Platforms)

Application Development Life Cycle Management

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Team Foundation Server

Microsoft

IT MANAGER

This has been one of the top used tool for the department and organization. It has become the one stop solution to all the projects, releases. The ability to design and expedite the overall application development from the start to till deployment has helped develop the products in an efficient and effective manner. With the company transition in the AI/ML it has become an important platform that has all the teams connected and review the work that is being done by several users. Inclusion of this has helped built the the first major deployment effectively on the operations with minimal errors. Teams are able to use the added SharePoint that has been able to provide the extra space for information sharing and seeing feedback/review on the work progress. Been a good tool and looking forward to using this on larger scale and integrating new features with the evolving technoliges across the globe.

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Senior Software Development Engineer

Team Foundation Server is the perfect tool for small projects requiring strict version control. The performance limitations become the major issue for large applications and projects. If scalability is a problem, it may be necessary to look for other options.

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