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In the past year, the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space was one of change, innovation and confusion. Those of us answering surveys on change management and issue tracking solutions had a whopping 100 answers to select from. Heterogeneous and multi-vendor ALM stacks became the norm. Agile development was everywhere and helped in popularizing esoteric Japanese management terms with the common developer. On the open source front, buzz around distributed version control and social coding grew, and in November we saw the launch of regular episodes of HBO-worthy drama around Hudson. To help developers from going insane in this rapidly evolving landscape, Mylyn was promoted to a top-level Eclipse project providing an ALM interoperability framework and tools. With open source, Agile, cloud deployment and DevOps trending in 2011, the ALM space is poised to become as action packed as the Java app server space of yesteryear.

Over the next 10 workdays I will post a prediction per day on what to watch for in the coming months, starting with tomorrow’s:

Prediction #10: Agile adoption continues its managerial rise, developers get annoyed and cause a backlash

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