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The common thread

The application lifecycle, without a break.

ALM - Application Lifecycle Management - is the simple idea that an application is thought through, built, verified, delivered and operated. And that these five moments form a loop: what you learn in production must feed back into the next round of scoping.

The application lifecycle as a DevSecPerfOps loop Scope, build and validate form the build loop; deliver and operate form the run loop. The two meet on your application, and what production shows feeds straight back into the next round of scoping. DEV Build better OPS Operate with confidence DevSecPerfOps Your application Faster · safer · more reliable 01 Scope Understand what is at stake and write the requirements 02 Build Develop with good practice 03 Validate Test and measure before shipping 04 Deliver Automate and deploy with confidence 05 Operate Monitor, analyse and improve continuously ∞ Lessons learned for a cycle of continuous improvement
  • 01 Scope Requirements, non-functional ones included: performance, security, operability. Half of all future incidents are decided right here. Consulting & Delivery
  • 02 Build Development, code quality, continuous integration. Developers who know what their code will cost in production. Software engineering
  • 03 Validate Functional acceptance testing, load runs, sign-off. Proof, before shipping, that it does what it should and that it holds. Quality · Performance
  • 04 Deliver Continuous deployment, containers, tool-backed go/no-go. Ship often, without fear. Platforms & DevOps
  • 05 Operate Observability, SRE, maintenance, on-call. And everything learned there feeds back into the next round of scoping. Performance · Engineering
Why it matters

One link in the chain is not enough

Most suppliers sell a single link in the chain: a consultancy to scope, an IT services firm to develop, a specialist to test, a managed services team to operate. At every handover the context is lost - and it is between the hands passing the baton that incidents are born.

We cover all five phases with teams that actually talk to each other, and a client can come to us through whichever phase they like. They discover the others along the way.

And where FlashOps fits in

The cycle, tooled up

FlashOps organises each application's cockpit around these same phases. It is the platform we use on our own assignments, and the one we offer to equip yours - with or without us.

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