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After a long incubation, ALM market is (finally) getting into maturity. Application Development and its supporting environments and tools are now entering an historic time.

So, while the largest part of the actual proposition of tools follows a pretty old concept that is strongly rooted in the waterfall model of software development, there are some raising stars that are finally going to extinguish dinosaur technologies.

The market is no longer willing to accept disconnected islands of automation that, once put in the same box, vendors’ marketing departments call “ALM”. The actual trend is to create single foundations that embed most of the features needed by ALM users, with a high degree of flexibility and good integration capabilities with existing corporate assets.

The future looks bright: instant collaboration, mobile access, embedded process knowledge, statements management, forensic reporting are just few examples of what an ALM user should expect to have soon.

In this presentation we will take a look into what an ALM user or evaluator should expect today and tomorrow in terms of ALM practices and supporting tools.

Author: Stefano Rizzo

VP Strategy/Business Development, Polarion Software

Stefano has a wide and heterogeneous set of skills. In a career spanning more than 20 years he has been a methodology consultant, a pre-sales engineer, an IT researcher, a university professor, VP of R&D for a large consortium, Regional Sales Director for a U.S. Software company, and CEO of two software development organizations. With his broad experience in the Application Lifecycle Management arena he headed up product management for Polarion’s Polarion ALM for Subversion and Polarion SVN Free and Open Source Subversion Tools product lines. Since 2010 he is responsible for Polarion’s strategy.

Stefano holds a Master Degree of Computer Science from the University of Genoa.