Application Services Library
- Application Services Library
ASL is a methodology used in the IT industry.
The Application Services Library (ASL) is a public domain standard, which describes a standard for processes within Application Management (the discipline of producing and maintaining information systems and applications). The term "library" is used because the ASL standard is based on the descriptions of best practices from the industry.
This standard was developed in the Netherlands, and is closely related to ITIL, BiSL and CMM. It is described in several books and articles (most of them only available in Dutch), as well as on the official website of the ASL Foundation.
The standard was developed because of the inability to structure the way of working within the Application Management departments by only using the ITIL framework, an older library embraced by the IT infrastructure departments for structuring their way of working. ITIL is very useful on the level of infrastructure management, but lacks support for application design and development.
ASL was defined in order to fill this gap for application management. A similar development has led to the definition of the BiSL-standard for Functional Management.
Purpose
The ASL is intended to support application management by providing tools. Two main categories of aids are defined:
*Descriptions of the processes for application management. Plus the use of best-practises
*Standard terminology, avoiding the pitfall of talking about different topics while using the same words.
The goal of ASL is to assist in the professionalisation of application management.
tructure of ASL
ASL contains six clusters of processes, three on the operational level, one on the tactical level and two on the strategic level.
Development and Maintenance
Within this cluster the majority of the work of application development is done.
Information
For more information, many articles, best practises and information is available at the website of the ASLFoundation.
References
* [http://www.aslfoundation.org/ ASL Foundation website]
*ASL, a framework for Application Management (book on ASL, ISBN 90-77212-05-1)
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