The application lifecycle management evolution

I have received several questions regarding the evolution of ALM and ALM systems.

Following post is a brief regarding the Application lifecycle management generations and evolution

Before ALM - There were some tools, or even no tools at all, and each tool did its role. There was no synchronization between the tools.

ALM 1.0 Tools (before even the term ALM was too common) was a set of separated tools that were synced manually in the best case.

ALM 2.0 is the unified platform for all development aspects, one repository, strong analytics and sharing of common services such as security, workflows, templates, etc.

ALM 2.5 (A new term I thought of...) is the next generation of application lifecycle management tools, talks about using the data collected during the development, define behavioural patterns and proactively generate alerts and metrics that will help the organization taking the right decisions, while taking into account every aspect of the development.
Each change submitted will list all the affected areas in the system, will show relevancy rank of affected items and show quality rank for each affected item.

More on that on my next posts....