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my new book at CM Best Practices is now on Safari Rough Cuts

Bob Aiello — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:15:46 +0100

Hi everyone, I am thrilled to announce that my new book on CM Best Practices is now online at http://my.safaribooksonline.com/roughcuts

Here is the direct link to the book.
Direct link is: http://informit.com/title/9780321699992

The print copy will be out in a few months (after technical review).

Bob Aiello
Editor in Chief
CM Crossroads

LAST CALL!! Which best practice is best???

Bob Aiello — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:58:03 +0100

please send me your articles for this issue of the CM Journal!

If you need an extension to Sunday to get your article done then please contact me as well!

Bob Aiello
Editor in Chief

Refactoring the Maven Build

Bob Aiello — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:00:29 +0100

Hi everyone, I wrote an article this weekend on tactics for refactoring a Maven build. I would really love to get your input on approaches that you have used for reviewing and improving Maven POMs.
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/cm-basics/13317-refactoring-the-maven-build

Bob Aiello
Editor in Chief

Invitation to the survey - Requirements Reuse 2010

Yuri Chernak — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:23:36 +0100

Dear CM Crossroads Member:
I would like to invite you to the Requirements Reuse 2010 survey at:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/246670/requirements-reuse-2010

Software reuse has been in the focus of the software development community for many years. Reusing software project artifacts, whether it is a system architecture, requirements, Read More...

Which Best Practice is Best? - Call for Articles!

Bob Aiello — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:19:33 +0100

Hey everyone, the deadline for submitting articles is March 10th for our upcoming issue - which best practice is best?

(I can usually give you a few extra days if that will help - AND YOU LET ME KNOW!)

Join the debate - on defining CM

Bob Aiello — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:59:39 +0100

please take a look at my blog and give me your input!
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/from-the-editor/13305-what-is-configuration-management-anyway

Configuration Management and Environment Support

Nagendra Mahadevappa — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:39:51 +0100

Hi there

This is my first blog on cmcrossroads, please bear with me, if am boring too much.

After working for several companies in the area of software configuration management, I wonder what is the right term to be used, when people work on configuration management and environments, such as test, user acceptance, system testing, beta and production

I tend to agree that, configuration management ends at the stage where you kick off the builRead More...

Discussion in the Forums (General CM) about CM in different industries

Bob Aiello — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:13:07 +0100

Paging Mark Bools, Paging Mark Bools and everybody else too! !

We have touched off a discussion in the forums on how CM is practiced in different industries! Join down in the Forums now!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.cmcrossroads.com/forums

Bob Aiello

Editor in Chief (and Chief trouble maker...

Looking for writers and bloggers on CM Crossroads!

Bob Aiello — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:25:26 +0100

Next month's topic is "Which Best Practice is Best!" - deadline March 10th!

The Events Calendar needs updating

Paul Gebert — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:52:21 +0100

Greetings,
Has anyone else noticed the calendar says "2009 Events"? Last time I checked I think we are in 2010. Those years are just flying by.

TIA for taking care of the update.
Paul Gebert

CM Procedures VS. Functional Department Procedures

Shari Councell — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:24:23 +0100

Here’s the issue: The CM Plan tells an organization what it is we are going to do, such as…establishing and maintaining consistency of a system's or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.

The CM Process, usually included within the CM Plan, tells an organization how weRead More...

Who am I?

saar netzer — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:29:15 +0100

Hello there, first, let me introduce myself.

My name is Saar Netzer and I'm a solution architect at Manageware ltd.

Until the end of Year 2009 I worked for CM-Logic ltd. as a Senior SCM Consultant and was running the Israel office for them.

As from January 2010, CM-Logic Ltd. Israel operations have been merged into Manageware and this is how it runs since.

As part of my responsibilities if delivering services and solutions for various customers in the areas of ALM Read More...

Configuration Item Selection

Dirk Wessel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:32:43 +0100

CRITERIA FOR THE SELECTION OF CONFIGURATION ITEMS
1.1. Background Information

(1) Configuration Item (CI) selection is probably one of the most significant and lasting decisions made during the entire life cycle of most complex systems. CI selection is a major commitment point in the acquisition process which affects every phase of system development, program management, and integrated logistics support. It is the basis for most acquisition, engineering, anRead More...

Call for Articles on Enterprise CM - this week!

Bob Aiello — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:18:56 +0100

Just reviewing articles on Enterprise CM.

Last call for articles this week!

Here is the Editor's Calendar.

http://www.cmcrossroads.com/home/company/editorial-calendar

Bob Aiello

Editor in Chief

We work in silos and it hurts the very organizations that pay us.

Julian Simpson — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:31:32 +0100

Siloes are for farmers to store grain in. But we've adapted siloes in our organizations. Check this workflow (from a medium size UK company) out:

Developer writes a feature.
Developer raises a change request.
The Change Control board meets, discusses the change, and approves it.
Developer "hands over' the code by checking into a well-known place in Perforce.
Release manager gets the change, verifies that all the change information is complete, and attempts to deploy tRead More...

Death of a community blogger; birth of a featured blog

Mark Bools — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:06:07 +0100

Hurrah! If you follow my community blog (the one you're now looking at) then, assuming you enjoy reading my ramblings, you should immediately switch to following my shiny new featured blog. I will not be maintaining this community blog for much of anything from now on.

The featured blog will not contain all that is new and shiny from my company blog, so it should be a lot more active.

R12 Enterprise Workbench Installation

Jose Santiago — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:12:37 +0100

Greetings one and all,
Has anyone sucessfully installed the R12 Enterprise workbench?

Seems minor technical difference make all the difference

Mark Bools — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:10:03 +0100

If you have come here through the 'Featured Blog' link you may notice that this blog has a legacy of entries taken from my community blog on CMCrossroads. That's because this IS my community blog. It has simply been linked to from the 'Featured Blog' menu, which was a good way to get started but has resulted in a rather bizarre post explaining why I will not be posting to this blog. Obviously this is not correct.

I had been hoping that CMCrossroads would be able to take a feed frRead More...

Many people were impacted by the economic downturn and CMers remained in demand

Bob Aiello — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:58:53 +0100

how has the economic downturn impacted you? While salaries were lower, demand for CM experts remained strong throughout the economic downturn. Now that the recovery is underway, qualified CM experts are positioned well to benefit. What do you think??

Write on my wall and tell - oh make sure you friend me as well!

Bob Aiello
Editor in Chief

I know there's not been much activity on this blog, but...

Mark Bools — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:49:08 +0100

as with all of you I have only so much time in a day.

As many of you know I maintain a blog over at http://blog.principia-it.co.uk where I post about pretty much anything related to lifecycle management including, but not limited to; configuration, build, change and release management from both a business and technical perspective. I am trying to blog there on a more regular basis (daily is my current goal, but only time will tell how high the scratch marks are when we get to theRead More...