{"id":21960,"date":"2011-04-01T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/interview-alm-getting-bad-name-how-agile-and-open-source-are-changing\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T21:34:00","slug":"interview-alm-getting-bad-name-how-agile-and-open-source-are-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/interview-alm-getting-bad-name-how-agile-and-open-source-are-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview on ALM getting a bad name, how Agile and open source are changing that"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><\/figure>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<div>\n<p>Here is a short interview from The Server Side conference, with Jan Stafford of <a href=\"http:\/\/itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com\/software-quality\/mik-kersten-gives-his-thoughts-on-alm\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Software Quality Insights<\/a>, on how ALM got a bad name from heavyweight methodologies like RUP, and why the move to Agile, open source and developer-centric tools is changing that. Yes, I am in fact holding an invisible crystal ball, which is the very same ball that I&#x2019;ve been using for my Agile\/ALM\/dev predictions series. It has been malfunctioning for the past couple of weeks, but has started working again, so stay posted for prediction #1.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a short interview from The Server Side conference, with Jan Stafford of Software Quality Insights, on how ALM got a bad name from heavyweight methodologies like RUP, and why the move to Agile, open source and developer-centric tools is changing that. 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