Application Lifecycle Management
Your ALM Health is great!
Your ALM process is pretty advanced! You understand the importance of data management and compliance. You have taken all of the necessary steps for a world-class ALM process. With that in mind, it’s important to stay up to date with your process to avoid the following risks:
1. A breach in compliance leading to Federal audits and fines
2. Up to an 80% loss in productivity
3. Up to a week of downtime due to pipeline breaks
Here are some steps you can take to improve your ALM Health:
1. Take a look below to learn more about the five areas of ALM Health and actions you can take to improve.
2. Reach out to your Prodly account manager to learn how you can utilize your current Prodly subscription for ALM Health improvement.
3. Join our webinar on ALM Health on July 19th to learn how you can take control of your ALM health.
Application Lifecycle Management
What is ALM Health?
ALM Health is a comprehensive measure of your application life-cycle management and the risks your org may be susceptible to. It comprises five key categories that relate to the key stages of ALM:
Plan, Build, Test, Release, and Monitor
How do you ensure your key ALM stages are running efficiently?
1. Plan
The first stage of any ALM process. This is where you research what changes to make or what app to build as well as what the requirements of the project are. In this stage, it’s helpful to use work management tools like Jira or Azure Boards to coordinate tasks, track progress, and facilitate collaboration.
Are you properly planning for your development—or is your lack of planning exposing you to risk?
2. Build
This is where the actual development work takes place, whether it’s coding or configuration. You can use scratch orgs or Developer sandboxes to build and fine-tune the changes according to the blueprint you created in the planning stage.
Are the right people developing in the right environments in your org?
3. Test
To ensure the quality and functionality of your changes, you need to test thoroughly. In the test stage, you evaluate the changes’ impact on existing features, as well as the performance of new features.
Are you properly testing to make sure your changes won't cause errors?
4. Release
The release stage includes the actual deployment of approved changes from the sandbox to the production environment. Thanks to the testing in the previous stage, the new functionality should not impact the stability of production.
Are you reliably and quickly able to deploy your changes from org to org?
5. Monitor
The last stage in the Salesforce ALM process involves monitoring the application to ensure the performance and stability of your changes. Continuous monitoring allows you to catch any potential issues early, which minimizes the risk of bugs, issues, and system downtime.
