A number of eminent authors take a look at aspects of application management from a range of practical and theoretical perspectives and present possible solutions for current challenges, demonstrating the close links between service creation and service management.

Beginning Application Lifecycle Management is a guide to an area of rapidly growing interest within the development community: managing the entire cycle of building software. ALM is an area that spans everything from requirements specifications to retirement of an IT-system or application. Because its techniques allow you to deal with the process of developing applications across many areas of responsibility and across many different disciplines, the benefits and effects of ALM techniques used on your project can be wide-ranging and pronounced. In this book, author Joachim Rossberg will show you what ALM is and why it matters. He will also show you how you can assess your current situation and how you can use this assessment to create the road ahead for improving or implementing your own ALM process across all of your team's development efforts. Beginning Application Lifecycle Management can be implemented on any platform. This book will use Microsoft Team Foundation Server as a foundation in many examples, but the key elements are platform independent and you'll find the book written in a platform agnostic way. In this book, you'll learn: What application lifecycle management is and why it matters. The steps necessary for implementing an ALM process. Tips and techniques you can use to gain control of your development efforts. How to implement an agile framework into your ALM process How to achieve traceability and visibility in your projects How to automate your ALM process

Note: This book is available in several languages: Dutch, English. For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the "Training Material" tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material. Domain process framework for application management. This book describes the application management processes as recognized by ASL. It also describes the finer details of these processes. This book is also used by the ASL BiSL Foundation in order to determine what ASL is. This book has been written with the assumption that the reader is familiar with application management, with how it is executed, and with the activities concerned. It contains tips and suggestions to assist in the implementation of processes, Therefore it can be used as a starting point from which to set up application management processes. The ASL 2 framework supports the implementation of application management, supported by additional best practices; these can be found on the website of the ASL BiSL Foundation. See: www.aslbislfoundation.org ASL 2 aligns with other frameworks e.g. ITIL? and BiSL? (for Business information management). The following topics are addressed in this book: Introduction to the main structure of ASL 2; Description of all ASL 2 clusters; Introduction to the implementation of ASL 2; Frequently Asked Questions on the ASL 2 framework; Changes between ASL version 1 and ASL 2. This book is the official core study guide for the ASL 2 Foundation exam.

Note: This book is available in several languages: Dutch, English. Self-assessment is the individual, systematic review of a way of working and the results of it. Filling out this ASL® 2 Self-assessment results into a clear notion how the application management and its processes and activities are arranged within your own organization. An important purpose for this self-assessment is not only to get a clear notion how certain processes are arranged, but also to make the constraints within the organization transparent as well as the consequences this has for (the continuity and quality of) the services. Based on the results of this evaluation actions can be initiated for further improvement. The eBook ISBN 9789087537647 is only available via Van Haren Publishing

"Addresses the complex subject of managing applications from the initial business need, through the Application Management lifecycle, up to and including retirement." - page 3.

Application Performance Management (APM) in the Digital Enterprise enables IT professionals to be more successful in managing their company's applications. It explores the fundamentals of application management, examines how the latest technological trends impact application management, and provides best practices for responding to these changes. The recent surge in the use of containers as a way to simplify management and deploy applications has created new challenges, and the convergence of containerization, cloud, mobile, virtualization, analytics, and automation is reshaping the requirements for application management. This book serves as a guide for understanding these dramatic changes and how they impact the management of applications, showing how to create a management strategy, define the underlying processes and standards, and how to select the appropriate tools to enable management processes. - Offers a complete framework for implementing effective application management using clear tips and solutions for those responsible for application management - Draws upon primary research to give technologists a current understanding of the latest technologies and processes needed to more effectively manage large-scale applications - Includes real-world case studies and business justifications that support application management investments

The objective of APM Best Practices: Realizing Application Performance Management is to establish reliable application performance management (APM) practices—to demonstrate value, to do it quickly, and to adapt to the client circumstances. It's important to balance long-term goals with short-term deliverables, but without compromising usefulness or correctness. The successful strategy is to establish a few reasonable goals, achieve them quickly, and then iterate over the same topics two more times, with each successive iteration expanding the skills and capabilities of the APM team. This strategy is referred to as “Good, Better, Best”. The application performance monitoring marketplace is very focused on ease of installation, rapid time to usefulness, and overall ease of use. But these worthy platitudes do not really address the application performance management processes that ensure that you will deploy effectively, synergize on quality assurance test plans, triage accurately, and encourage collaboration across the application life cycle that ultimately lowers overall application cost and ensures a quality user experience. These are also fine platitudes but these are the ones that are of interest to your application sponsors. These are the ones for which you need to show value. This CA Press book employs this iterative approach, adapted pragmatically for the realities of your organizational and operational constraints, to realize a future state that your sponsors will find useful, predictable and manageable—and something that they will want to fund. In the meantime, you will learn the useful techniques needed to set up and maintain a useful performance management system utilizing best practices regardless of the software provider(s).