What is the difference between ALM, CLM and CALM?
Accepted answer
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."
By any other name would smell as sweet."
Here's my view:
ALM, application lifecycle management. A general term for addressing the end-to-end development process, typically of software applications. Instantiated with a set of development processes combined with tools that automate and enable those processes. Note that ALM processes must be tailored to the project and organizational context: some are very simple and light-weight; others are very complex and instrumented.
CLM: collaborative lifecycle management: an ALM solution from IBM Rational built on the data architecture and integration architecture of Jazz. The name emphasizes the increase in collaboration across job roles (and visibility of project activity across tools and people) compared to first generation and competitors' ALM solutions.
CALM: an early name for CLM that is no longer used much.