Application Lifecycle Management $($ALM$)$ Concepts The ALM framework gives us a structured way to separate development tasks and separate responsibilities. A critical part of this is to separate the development, the testing, and the production environments Match the environment with the description that best describes it$.$ Used to deploy working versions of reports to the business. A Production Used to present built reports to the business and get feedback from reviewers and ensure everything works as expected $.$ B Testing Development Used to try out new ideas $,$ and create new reports in an environment that does not affect ongoing business operations $.$