As globalization builds momentum and takes on a life of its own, enterprises are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver an end-to-end solution for application lifecycle management.

In a geographically distributed environment, it has become essential for CIOs to set, measure, and improve their development processes and for project teams to understand and complete their specific development tasks in view of the overall lifecycle.

To meet this challenge, enterprises need to bring their people, ideas, processes, and development partners together in one Collaborative Development Environment.

We interview Chris Clarke to gain insight into application lifecycle management.

Chris is Senior Director of Solution Architecture for COLLABNET.