What is ALM?

What is ALM?

• A. Application Lifecycle Management
• B. Agile Lifecycle Management
• C. Application Loading Management
• D. Automated Lifecycle Monitoring

Answer: (A)

ALM is the practice of managing an application from concept to retirement, integrating people, processes, and tools across the full software lifecycle. It covers planning and requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, release management, and ongoing operations, along with governance, quality, and traceability. The goal is to align business needs with engineering work, ensuring that every stage is coordinated, auditable, and governed, so changes in requirements or findings in testing properly propagate through to deployment and maintenance. This end-to-end view distinguishes ALM from narrower concepts that focus only on specific activities. For example, Agile Lifecycle Management would emphasize agile workflows and sprints within parts of the process, not the complete governance of an application’s lifecycle; Application Loading Management isn’t a standard term for managing the lifecycle; Automated Lifecycle Monitoring focuses on monitoring rather than coordinating the entire lifecycle from planning through retirement.

ALM is the practice of managing an application from concept to retirement, integrating people, processes, and tools across the full software lifecycle. It covers planning and requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, release management, and ongoing operations, along with governance, quality, and traceability. The goal is to align business needs with engineering work, ensuring that every stage is coordinated, auditable, and governed, so changes in requirements or findings in testing properly propagate through to deployment and maintenance. This end-to-end view distinguishes ALM from narrower concepts that focus only on specific activities. For example, Agile Lifecycle Management would emphasize agile workflows and sprints within parts of the process, not the complete governance of an application’s lifecycle; Application Loading Management isn’t a standard term for managing the lifecycle; Automated Lifecycle Monitoring focuses on monitoring rather than coordinating the entire lifecycle from planning through retirement.