Increased regulatory compliance
Regulatory compliance can make or break companies within highly regulated industries, and could mean steep fines for others if not managed carefully. ALM software lets companies set processes and procedures to ensure that all compliance measures are met. They also increase the consistency and follow-through of developers and managers who work on the projects.
These benefits are achieved through documentation, automated workflows, and testing units that give companies granular control over their requirements.
Centralized database for application documentation and code
Your development team all produces code on their own machines, but your team needs a centralized place to store it so that it’s available for everyone to access and improve upon. An ALM brings together version control and documentation in a single interface.
A centralized repository for application documentation, issues, tickets, source code, and messages about those items can bring vital context to code that speeds updates and bug fixes.
Analysis and improvement resources
When all the application work, messaging, and documentation lives in a single piece of software, vital statistics can be gleaned from that data. The team can understand via objective measures which of the features is most difficult to support, what went wrong in early development of the tools, and how these processes can be improved over time. Whether its through manual audits of the team’s processes led by project managers or examination of dashboards and reports, the team can go to the ALM for measured understanding of the application’s health and the paths to improvement.