Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) in 2026 is driven by Deployment Agents. These agents reside in your DevOps pipeline and autonomously perform 'Conflict Resolution' when merging unmanaged changes into a Managed solution. If a dependency is missing (e.g. a missing table reference), the agent identifies it, packages it, and validates the solution checksum before push—drastically reducing the 70% failure rate associated with manual enterprise deployments.