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Configuration Management in the News It’s normal to not hear about configuration management (CM) during the evening news or read about our profession in your local newspaper. However, that doesn’t mean things are not progressing in our field, as this news roundup will detail. |
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A Look at the Past and Present Worlds of SCM Tools Joe Townsend takes a look at software configuration management (SCM) tools, examines the companies that were once considered market leaders in this space, and notes the rise in popularity of Subversion and Git, which control almost 75 percent of the market share for Eclipse users. |
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Why Is Configuration Management Important? Joe Townsend explains configuration management's importance to an organization. As CM managers, we can sometimes get so deep into the details of what we do that we struggle to answer the simple questions for our user base. |
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What Is the Purpose of Configuration Management? Joe Townsend attempts to find out: What is the purpose of configuration management (CM). This seemingly simple question is the one we CM professionals are often asked, and at times we stumble to offer the answer that really drives home the true purpose of what we do as configuration managers. |
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The Latest Software Configuration Management Technology Joe Farah explains that if you are using 2nd-generation or even 1st-generation software configuration management technology, you are stuck in the past. To learn what is possible today, you need to look at the capabilities of the latest 3rd and 4th generation tools. Then, you need to get going! |
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What Role Does Configuration Management Play in Requirements Analysis? Once the inception phase of your project has been completed, a project will enter the requirements analysis phase. Joe Townsend explains the role that configuration management (CM) and quality assurance/control (QA/QC) plays during this phase of a project’s lifecycle. |
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What Studying Release Notes Reveals about Your SCM and ALM Tools Studying release notes tells you a great deal about your software configuration management (SCM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) environment. They will also help you understand why SCM and ALM are so important. ALM tools provide the capability to get release notes automatically. |
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Branching Is Not Just for Version Control Joe Farah explains to us that a branching strategy is central to a configuration management (CM) plan and that it extends beyond version control. Remember, It's not just the files that need to be organized, it's the entire CM and application lifecycle management (ALM) data repository. |
