A new generation of ALM solutions that have been proven in many global development organizations support companies as they progress through maturity levels. These solutions enable organizations to build better systems and software, successfully innovate and respond to change, while meeting their business and governance objectives. The path to achieving these benefits can be broken into a succession of "maturity levels," with specific practices and products that organizations should implement and adopt. The clearly defined steps in advanced systems and software development provide a roadmap for maturing processes beyond the initial steps of integrating requirements management, change and configuration management, and testing silos. This maturation benefits business processes across the global enterprise.

This white paper introduces the steps that organizations must take to improve their systems and software development processes, by implementing key best practices and uniting development teams with ALM. It discusses solutions for unifying fractured, global development groups with existing infrastructures, as well as paths to expand on first successful steps to bring more critical stakeholders into the ALM process while continuously improving its efficiency.