By providing an open, extensible integrated development platform that fosters collaboration and transparency amongst all project stakeholders, application lifeycle management (ALM) can help your organization deliver working software faster.

However, an ALM platform alone cannot ensure a transformation in your software delivery process; there are five imperatives you must follow for successful ALM.

View this "whiteboard" for a succint yet eye-opening explanation of how the five ALM imperatives— real-time planning, lifecycle traceability, development intelligence, continuous improvement, and in-context collaboration— can help you:

• Accelerate delivery time
• Improve quality
• Refine predictability
• Reduce costs
• And maximize product value.