Chapter 9. Application Lifecycle Management

"If you aren't doing ALM today and software is important to your business, you need to start thinking about how to get transparency, how to get understanding of the application process flow, and to think of software as a business process."

— Dave West, Forrester

This chapter describes an approach on how to manage the application lifecycle in the Windows Azure environment. First, it describes what Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is all about, and in the second part of the chapter, we focus on specific ALM activities when developing and running applications on Windows Azure and how to use Team Foundation Server for the same.