Last week, we showed you the Mendix Feedback Cycle, with Sprintr; a vital part of Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This week, we bring you another important part of ALM - Transport Workflow. This functionality enables DevOps teams to easily transport apps from development environments to test-, acceptance- and production environments.
Change and release management should be as easy and quick as possible because true agile teams will change Apps constantly based upon new user input and evolving business requirements. We wanted a simple system to manage the “App Jungle” – often complex, with applications constantly switching between environments. Because now (as Ron Tolido of Cap Gemini says) “if Applications were People, I’d say most organizations have a lot of Baby Boomers employed right now that yearn for retirement”. We think complex change and release management systems hold back the rapid evolution that applications have to go through nowadays, so we built this process into the Mendix 3.0:
First lets give you an overview of your complete App Jungle:
It’s easy to spot which apps need work, and need to be transported to a different environment; about as easy as reading a traffic light. You’ll also see recent alerts and activity along the left side of the application. Just click on the app and the next screen appears, where you can find details of different versions of the applications (thanks to your dedicated Team Server) and move an app from Acceptance to Production.
To see our workflow live in action please
