Application Management processes guide how business applications are developed, managed, improved, and when necessary, sunset. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a continuous process of managing the life of an application through governance, development and maintenance. ALM is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management. This book is your ultimate resource for Application Management. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Application Management right away, covering: Application lifecycle management, Software development process, Requirements analysis, Functional specification, Software architecture, Software design, Computer programming, Software testing, Software deployment, Software maintenance, Agile software development, Cleanroom Software Engineering, Iterative and incremental development, Rapid application development, IBM Rational Unified Process, Spiral model, Waterfall model, Extreme Programming, Lean software development, Scrum (development), V-Model (software development), Test-driven development, Software configuration management, Software documentation, Software quality assurance, Software project management, User experience design, Compiler, Debugger, Profiling (computer programming), Graphical user interface builder, Integrated development environment, Software engineering, Requirements management, Issue tracking system, Release management, Model-driven engineering, Change management (engineering), Configuration management, Software build, Issue management, Workflow, Unified Modeling Language, HP Application Lifecycle Management, Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management, IBM Rational Team Concert, CollabNet, Serena Software, CodeBeamer (software), Intland Software, MKS Integrity, MKS Inc., Parasoft Concerto, Parasoft, Pulse (ALM), Genuitec, SAP Solution Manager, StarTeam, Borland, Workspace.com, JIRA, Atlassian, FogBugz, Fog Creek Software, BuildMaster, Business transaction management, Product lifecycle management, Application Lifecycle Framework, Systems Development Life Cycle, Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration. This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Application Management. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Application Management with the objectivity of experienced IT professionals.