A mature Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy is critical to the success of any software developer. The Force.com platform effectively commoditizes many of the complex issues faced by cloud developers, but it's not without its own challenges, particularly for those using the managed package distribution mechanism. Team development, automated builds, continuous integration, and evolution of managed package contents (particularly when multiple managed packages are involved) all pose significant challenges. We have managed to minimize the impact of these issues and have successfully incorporated Force.com into a very robust and mature ALM strategy. Join us as we share our ALM approach, the issues incorporating Force.com into it, and our solutions to those issues. You'lll leave this session with a better understanding of both mature ALM processes and options for applying them to Force.com development.