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Your company is considering implementing an application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy.
You need to identify the return on investment (ROI) of implementing an ALM strategy.
Which three benefits should you recommend? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)
A. Bug-free software releases
B. Latest best-of-breed tools specific for each role
C. Improved product quality
D. Shortened development cycles
E. Early user feedback
Correct Answer: CDE
Explanation/Reference:
Business Benefits of ALM
The introduction of ALM within your organization can result in the following business benefits:
* (C) Quality improvements, so the final application meets the requirements of your customers, and meets quality of service requirements.
* (D) Shorter development cycles and improved productivity through shared best practice, process learning, and improvement.
* (E) Increased collaboration between business and IT--better alignment of the business with IT.
* (E) Increased ability of the IT department to rapidly build and adapt applications to support dynamically changing business requirements.
* Increased accountability, enabling stricter compliance to governance initiatives.
* Improved project management, including better estimation, better tracking, and better reporting through a single, unified view of the project. The improved integration stems from the use of tools that work together rather than disparate tools, poor integration, and duplicated data.
The net result of these benefits is increased synchronization between IT and your business to deliver improved business value to your customers and to provide an additional competitive advantage.
Reference: Driving Your Business Forward with Application Life-cycle Management (ALM)
