Application Lifecycle Management

Are you tired of:

  • Projects consistently costing more than budgeted?
  • Missing requirements or setting poor client expectations?
  • Defects causing issues with production applications?
  • Unexpected delays in software development projects?
  • Loss of Faith in your IT organization?
  • Spending more time supporting your application and not enhancements?

With more and more demand from business users for technology, efficiency, effectiveness, and cost savings are at the forefront of all IT decision makers' minds. At CTS, we believe that having the right tools to support your process can improve team efficiency and effectiveness and reduce IT costs. Once effective tools are in place to govern the software development lifecycle, efforts can then focus on the improvement of specific areas, such as enforcing coding best practices, automating configuration management, and enabling test impact analysis.

 

CTS has experience implementing application lifecycle improvement in situations that range from two-man development teams to enterprise software development departments with hundreds of team members. We apply our Sentinel and Guardian methodologies, relentless attention to quality, and years of experience to help our customers deliver enterprise quality software.

CTS can provide the following professional services to help improve your application development process:

 

CTS believes that managing requirements is the most important aspect of any software project; all roads must lead to a requirements document. CTS will review your current requirements process and provide guidance on how to improve the process and implement tools to enhance the requirements process.

CTS will review the current state of your development process to help you identify areas needing improvement. CTS consultants will provide an implementation roadmap for you to use as you move forward.

CTS will identify targets for automation within your development teams to create efficiencies and better utilize available resources. CTS will assist in the development of build automation, continuous integration, and continuous improvement.

Does your QA team always know what to test when developers release applications to QA? CTS will show you how to integrate QA throughout the software development lifecycle to enable more precision in your QA process and testing.

CTS will show you how to identify and report against the key metrics of your application lifecycle process to showcase the results of your development efforts.