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Stop Blaming Changing Requirements for Your Project's Failure Blaming changing requirements for a project's downfall is about as misguided as it gets. When you start accepting that change is in coming and you start preparing for it by using iterative development, you'll see that dreading or fighting change is the only way to ensure failure. |
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Helpful Tips for Good Branching and Merging in Product Development Branching and merging are necessary, but they can be minimized to reduce the overhead. In this story, Joe Farah shares several helpful branching and merging tips as well as his simple philosophy of creating a new branch when you need to support the old one. |
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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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September Hacking News Roundup In this hacking roundup for September, read about two companies that are both specializing in hacking software, albeit from two different angles. One company is selling hacking tools to law enforcement agencies worldwide; the other company is building a software platform that prevents attacks. |
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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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Tips for Picking the Right Software Technology When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. You may have heard this quote before, but it applies well to software technology choices. The key to choosing an appropriate technology for a software solution is to avoid bias and carefully consider the requirements you know. |
