The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Every implementation project involves separate Dynamics AX environments for developing customizations, testing, and then finally releasing these customizations into the production environment. The Application Lifecycle is the process of governance, development, and maintenance of the customization process across these environments.

The following image shows an example application life cycle scenario for customization and code promotion across environments, using Dynamics AX:

The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

As shown in the preceding flowchart, this example ALM process goes through the phases described in the following sections.

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