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title: "InCycle BluePrint: an agile tool for ALM improvement"
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# [InCycle BluePrint: an agile tool for ALM improvement](https://blogs.incyclesoftware.com/2012/05/incycle-blueprint-an-agile-tool-for-alm-improvement/)

 Written by [InCycle](https://blogs.incyclesoftware.com/author/incycle) | May 25, 2012 11:20:05 AM

### [View Video](https://vimeo.com/42790599)

### InCycle BluePrint: Small agile steps, Big ALM impact!

For development teams seeking to become best-in-class, the InCycle Blueprint is a comprehensive management tool for implementing ALM best practices with Visual Studio. Unlike time consuming ad-hoc do-it-yourself approaches, InCycle Blueprint provides a proven framework combined with a turnkey TFS template and a series of ready-to-use initiatives to accelerate your time to improvement.

InCycle BluePrint is a change management approach for ALM adoption that applies agile principles to the adoption of ALM practices:

- Process owners who prioritize the adoption of ALM elements from a process backlog.
- Teams that use sprint (short bursts) planning to identify how they’ll implement a given element of ALM, adopt the ALM element during a short sprint and assess their progress daily.
- Teams that present to stakeholders practice improvements that have been implemented on active projects at the end of every improvement iteration (sprint review).

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