Dick Carlson – May 2004

What are industry best practices for Software Configuration Management (SCM)? Which best practices are best for your project – for your organization? How should these best practices be applied or implemented to solve your SCM problem domain? Is your project or organization prepared to use SCM best practices? Are there good best practices and not-so-good best practices, or are some SCM best practices better than others? What should you know before applying SCM best practices to your project or to your organization? Let’s examine a collection of SCM best practices.