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# Get started

OpenText™ Software Delivery Management is a web-based application lifecycle management platform that enables teams to collaborate easily, manage the product delivery pipeline, and visualize the impact of changes.

In this topic:

## First steps

| Before you begin To get started, gain a high-level picture of what you can do. For details, see Product lifecycle.
| Begin When you're ready to begin, log in and start working in the modules that are relevant to your needs. For details, see Modules.
| Video tutorials Familiarize yourself with key areas using the library of video tutorials: Video gallery.
| Tips & tricks View the UI tips and tricks community post for a list of useful tips and tricks.
| Migrate Use automated tools to migrate external projects to OpenText Software Delivery Management. This includes OpenText Application Quality Management, Silk Central, and Jira projects. For details, see Shift on OpenText Marketplace.

## Set up the environment

| Initial setup Before users can begin working, the administrator needs to perform initial setup tasks. For details, see Administration.
| Generate demo data To enable users to get familiar with the environment, you can automatically populate a workspace with demo data for experimentation. For details, see Create workspaces.

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## See also

- Modules
- Common flows
- Product lifecycle

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