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SDLC was designed\nto rein in development projects and add predictability, with the goal to\ndeliver greater value. SDLC was conceived to follow a more structured and\nincremental approach – i.e. phases of the good old waterfall \/ V-Model approach\nto software development, where the phases consisted of software planning,\nrequirements management, design, development, build management and finally Test\nand QA. And depending on the industry, software development still very much\ncontinues to follow this approach. However, over the last decade or more, Agile\nhas become mainstream and methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban have become\nthe defacto approaches in software development for their obvious benefits. This\nis where ADLM comes in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADLM – Application Development Lifecyle Management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
ADLM or\nApplication Development Lifecycle Management is a derivative term\/acronym\ncoined by Gartner, which they define specifically as the management of the\n“development” portion of an application’s life and in which key\nelements are included such as: software requirements definition and\nmanagement, software change and configuration management, software project\nplanning focusing on Agile planning (remember this for later),<\/em>\nwork item management, quality management, including defect\nmanagement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To recap then, both\nSDLC and ADLM deal with the management of the development lifecycle. So, what\nis the difference between the two? And how does the idea of Agile development\nfit into all this? Simply put, Agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban are\nframeworks of implementation of the SDLC, and ADLM is the management of the\nsoftware lifecycle when Agile methodologies are implemented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So how do these two fit together? If we look at the taxonomy of both, for the most part ADLM and SDLC are essentially the same; the most significant difference lies in the methodology itself on how software development is being managed. With ADLM Agile methodologies take precedence and as a result we see activities such as Software Change and Configuration management, and Issue\/Defect management play a more vital role in software development. Agile places greater emphasis on being able to not only manage software change but to embrace it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read part 2 of ALM, ADLM, EAP, SDLC & DevOps: Understanding Software Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"ADLM](\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/02\/ADLM.png\")