Thank you for choosing Serena Orchestrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Serena Orchestrated ALM automates end-to-end application development by helping IT organizations efficiently capture all demand from their stakeholders, manage changes to requirements and software configurations, and deploy releases with confidence. Serena has helped thousands of IT organizations make dramatic improvements to their application development, including greater visibility, faster time to market, higher stakeholder satisfaction, and lower development costs.
Serena Orchestrated ALM is powered by Serena Business Manager (SBM), a powerful platform that allows you to define and automate your organizational workflows. With SBM, you can ensure that all aspects of your development and delivery process are tracked and automated, using fully configurable lifecycles that are modeled after your own processes. The Serena Orchestrated ALM solutions integrate the workflow and automation power of SBM with your critical business systems, including your configuration and demand management systems.
Serena ALM includes the following solutions:
Serena Release Manager, the orchestrated solution for application release management that enables you to plan, manage, and automate the deployment of applications into test, pre-production, and production environments across mainframe and distributed systems with start-to-finish traceability and end-to-end visibility.
Serena Development Manager, the orchestrated solution that enables you to plan, control, and automate all your development processes from definition to quality assurance and release approval with start-to-finish traceability and end-to-end visibility across distributed environments. This includes an optional Agile Planning component that enables you to use Agile methodology when managing your development.
Serena Requirements Manager, the orchestrated solution for application requirements management that brings requirements initiation, review, and approval to your end-to-end design, development, and quality process.
Audience and Scope
This document is intended for personnel who are responsible for installing and configuring Serena Release Manager or Serena Development Manager. For documentation on installing and configuring Serena Requirements Manager, see Serena Requirements Manager Installation Guide.
Each product in the individual integrated suites have full documentation. This book is not meant to replace that documentation, but will serve as a master document to guide you through the process of installing and configuring the entire suite.
Before You Begin
See the Readmes for Serena Release Manager and Serena Development Manager for the latest updates and corrections for this document.
Procedures and figures in this documentation are examples based on the default implementation of Serena ALM. The details may not match your implementation exactly, but provide a reference to get you started.