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.
Gartner defines enterprise agile planning (EAP) tools as products that enable organizations to scale their agile practices to support a holistic enterprise view. EAP tools are an evolution of project-/team-centric tools to support a business-outcome-driven approach to managing agile product delivery at scale. This evolution is highlighted by the fact that several of these tools also offer project portfolio management (PPM) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) capabilities. EAP tools in this market combine data from multiple sources to enable: - Monthly, weekly and even daily incremental value delivery based on business outcomes - Support for enterprise agile frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - Product roadmapping - Management of strategy, investments and objectives - Increased visibility into the flow of work - Management of work backlogs - Collaboration capabilities for individuals and teams - Management of cross-team dependencies - Release planning and forecasting - Visibility into the financial aspects of the work being done