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- Electric Cloud’s Software Development Predictions for 2010
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- ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and 15288: The Entry-Level Standards for Process Definition - Part 2
- CM Journal - December 2009
- CM Wrap-up for 2009 and Predictions for 2010
- Effective Open Source Software Adoption for Compliance with Legal Obligations
- The State of IT Change
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of SCM Essentials for Small Business
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and 15288: The Entry-Level Standards for Process Definition - Part 1
- Small Teams and SCM
- Overcoming Resistance to Change by SCM
- Personality Matters - Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Experience Report: Engineering Change in a Large Organization
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Personality Matters – Implementing Standards and Frameworks
- Lean Six Sigma for Software Process Excellence
- Rationale for Standards
- Personality Matters – CM Planning or Planning for CM
- The Downward Spiral, or a Definition of a Mess
- Software Configuration Management Planning
- Lessons for Environmentally Friendly Configuration Management
- Personality Matters - Release Management Essentials
- Release Management
- Dicta RM
- Handling Build Binaries: A Case Study
- A pragmatic approach to Build and Deployment management
- Build and Deploy across multiple platforms
- Don't be a Fool, Choose the Right Tool
- People, Processes and Tools
- Process Tool Selection Guidelines
- Personality Matters – Taming the Wild Tools Selection Process
- Promoting Tools Within an Organization
- SCM Assessment
- Applying Software Configuration Management Methodology to Database Development
- Evaluating and Selecting CM Tools - A Perspective
- Options for Promoting and Controlling Changes in Risk Adverse Environments
- Keep The Change
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Change Control
- Welcoming Change
- Grokking Change
- Personality Matters - Change Control or Control of Changes
- Business-Level Change Management
- Antipatterns of Change Control
- Behaviorally Speaking - Change Control or Control of Changes
- ABCs of BPD (Build, Package and Deploy)
- Breaking News; Build Still Important, but Deployment is King!
- Business-Level Change Management
- Product versus Project - Where to Focus Your Efforts
- Big Picture or Little Picture – Where to Focus?
- Business Criticality and the Investment of CM
- The Lessons Learned – Worst Mistakes Ever Made
- Really, Really Bad Mistakes
- What's In A Name?
- Look Forward to Slow Change in 2009
- Predictions for the Coming Year - 2009
- Large Scale Continuous Integration
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Behaviorally Speaking - CM Planning
- CM Planning in Turbulent Times
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of the CM Plan
- Configuration Management Primer For Hiring Managers: Two Different Jobs Confused By The Same Title
- The CMP - An Alternate Approach
- Result-driven Testing: Start Adding Value to Your Organization
- Evaluating and Selecting CM Tools - A Perspective
- Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool
- HR Corner - Layoffs, credit crunch, bad economy and CM 2.0!
- Evolution of Life Cycles
- Behaviorally Speaking - Build and Deployment Management
- Continuous Integration and Enterprise Build Automation
- Using a Commercial Tool to Automate a Build and Deployment Process
- Finding meaning in your Build and Deploy Process
- Behaviorally Speaking - Project vs. Product SCM
- Neck Deep In the Big Muddy: Countering the Protective Collective Inertia of Failed IT Projects
- Product vs. Project SCM
- SCM Essentials For Small Teams
- Small Team Essentials: An SCM Perspective
- Can Configuration Management Defend You Against Information Asymmetry?
- "Agile" Means Disciplined SCM
- SCM Essentials for Small Teams
- Release Management
- Release Engineering Best Practices
- SCM Techniques #4 - Longacre Deployment Management & Project Baseline
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #4 - Schedule & Technological Diversity
- IT Governance and Compliance
- Is Your Development Going Global?
- Transparency and Accountability
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Globally Distributed CM
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #3
- Automated Defect Prevention - Best Practices in Software Management
- Role of Management in an Iterative and Agile Software Development Environment
- Effective IT GRC Starts at the Top
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #2
- SCM Techniques #3
- An Automated Infrastructure and Workflow for Process Improvement
- Test
- Process compliance sans documentation: You must be joking!!!!
- Standards – are they really needed?
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge
- SCM Techniques Number 2
- Standard Performance
- Four Lessons about Company Standards and Procedures from Build Management
- Personality Matters: do Standards threaten one's individualism and creativity?
- Standards: The What, Why and When
- Look Forward to More of the Same in 2008
- SCM Techniques: Kicking Off
- Getting your job search in gear
- Personality Matters: Predictions for 2008
- Metrics for SCM - analysis and experience.
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 3
- Metrics as a Method of Quality Testing
- CM and the new math: Teamwork when 1 plus 1 equals 3
- Process in an Agile World
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 2
- First Practice
- Build Quality In The Agile Methods are right!
- CM Tool Chains & Their Management
- Extending the SCM Value Chain by Unifying PPM and Configuration Management
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 1
- Metrics for SCM - a literature overview
- Getting Requirements Right the First Time: Four-Step Process for Effective Requirements Definition
- In a flat world there are many potholes
- Minimizing the Requirements GIGO Factor
- When to use Staged Integration
- Traceability and Auditability
- Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for Process Improvement Program
- Traceability & Auditability: Do you really know what went into production?
- Consider Role Based Configuration Management
- Do the Right Thing!
- Build Forensics – linking production to development
- Rapid Response or Reactive CM - Responding to the Demands of Agile Development
- "You've Got to Have Rhythm, Setting the Tempo for Agile Development"
- ‘Oh Process!' - How does it matter?
- SCM metrics - a response.
- Quality in Configurations
- Managing Change Churn and Complexity
- Technical Introduction to Longacre Deployment Management™
- SOX and J-SOX Primer
- Improving Windows Availability
- Metric Mania
- Metrics for Fun and Profit
- Build Types Vs. Build Promotions
- Knowledge Empowerment for the Virtual Development Team
- Are You Still Building from the Tip Revisions?
- Building In Today’s CM World
- Application Lifecycle Management - A Look Back
- Application Lifecycle Management - A Look Back
- 2007: A Year of Open-Source Acceptance
- A Sensible Approach to Access Control in Configuration Management
- Osmosis
- The Business of Software Development
- Configuration Management in an SOA Environment
- Configuration Management and Simplicity - The Five "T" Approach to Keeping it Simple
- Requirements and Analysis
- Measure what Matters
- Building Reliable Applications
- Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Infrastructure Management Keeps Reliable Applications in the Race
- Integrated Tool Suites – Pros and Cons
- Taking Territory
- Managing Vendor Code Customizations with Stream-based SCM
- Improving Application Quality by Controlling Application Infrastructure
- Career Search Networking: Putting The Plan Into Action
- P-P Matrix for panoramic view of Process Compliance
- How to Improve Your Software Development Process Without Really Messing Things Up
- Empty page
- Using Policies to Effectively Integrate Configuration Management into the Development Process
- What do Enterprise Architecture principles require of Configuration Management?
- Version Control vs. Configuration Management
- Athletic Tape for Software Development
- Moving management to benefit from Configuration Management over Version Control
- Managing Dispersed Development Teams for Productivity
- Integrating IT For Productivity
- Motorcycle CM
- Open Source or Open Season?
- Open Source Strategies
- Addressing Concerns Of Performance Of Integration Builds
- Open Source, and other Dumb Ideas
- La mort du CM (and Other Predictions)
- Future of CM: Standards Is A Key To Transparent Change
- The Future of ALM and CM
- Reasons Why
- Avoiding Continuous Integration Build Breakage Patterns
- The "Right" SCM Process
- Experience Report: Using the Stable Receiving-Line to Support Parallel Development
- Experience Report: Using the Stable Receiving-Line to Support Parallel Development
- Open Source Development Community Drives Processes Benefiting Enterprise Applications
- Finding the Balance
- Capacity Planning For Software Build Management Servers
- Tool Purchase Afterbirth
- A Project Based Approach for Evaluating SCM Tools
- Gauging the Impact
- Practicing Requirements Based Development
- The Only Constant in This World is Change
- What to Say When you First Meet People and How to Follow up.
- Using Process-Enabled SCM Tools to Facilitate the Software Development Lifecycle
- A Bridge Too Far?
- Career Search Networking: Putting The Plan Into Action
- Ordinary Exceptions
- The Plan: A Career Search Strategy for the 21st Century - Part 2
- Distributed SCM
- Bills of Information and Bills of Material
- Mature in America?
- The Plan: A Career Search Strategy for the 21st Century
- Is There a Source Control "Silver Bullet"?
- Graphs for Change Requests
- Automation: Aspirin for WebSphere Migration Headaches
- Another Tool in Your Bag of Tricks (Part 3)
- The New Employment Economy
- The Role of Incremental Integration in a Parallel Development Environment
- Another Tool in Your Bag of Tricks (Part 2)
- A Trustworthy 3-Way Merge
- Another Tool in your Bag of Tricks (Part 1)
- Loving the Evil Twin
- SCM: An Important Focal Point
- The Nuts and Bolts of Release Builds
- Defining moments
- Release Management
- The Challenges Posed by Parallel Development on Release Management
- The Role of Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Standards and Best Practices
- Don't Let Your Controlled Build Process be Undermined by Sloppy Deployments (2)
- SCM Patterns: Building on Task-Level Commit
- Parallel Software Development is the New Normal
- How to integrate continuously evolving Product versions
- Build and Integrate Early and Often
- SCM Best Practices - Determining Which Practices Are Best for You
- Variation Management in Software Product Lines
- HR Corner: Beware of the Saboteur!
- HR Corner: Managing Your OffShore Staff...
- Golden Patterns and Symmetries in Concurrent Development
- Don't Let Your Controlled Build Process be Undermined by Sloppy Deployments (Part 1 of 2)
- Using SCM Patterns to Integrate SCM with Software Development
- Behaviorally Speaking: SCM Patterns - Are They Really Practical?
- HR Corner: Managing Your Off Shore Staff...
- Learner-Centric, a unique approach to training
- "Insanity is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Implementation Methodologies
- Strategic Weakness: SCM Implementation Risks
- Implementation Methodologies - When cultures clash!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Implementation Methodologies - When Cultures Clash!!
- HR Corner: What is Cultural Sensitivity Anyway?
- Learn from your Vendor: Solution Selling
- HR Corner: Automating your job search!
- SCM Predictions: Are We There Yet?
- Determine Your Team's SCM Needs Before Automating!
- Integrate Software Configuration Management with Software Development
- HR Corner: Automating your Job Search!
- Logs Aren't Just For Your Holiday Fire
- Integrated Software Development - The ‘Good Parts' Version
- A Practical Approach for Selecting and Adopting an SCM Tool
- Behaviorally Speaking: What We've Learned - The Hard Way...
- HR Corner: What We've Learned About Job Hunting...
- Beyond Continuous Integration, A Holistic Approach to Build Management (Part 2 of 2)
- Dealing with the Aversion to Mergin'
- Merging Defect Fixes into the Development Codeline
- HR Corner: Games Headhunters Play...
- Beyond Continuous Integration, A Holistic Approach to Build Management (Part 1 of 2)
- Challenges and Strategies for Building and Deploying J2EE Applications
- Managing build variants with a better bootstrap
- The Job Market And Today's Growing Economy
- HR Corner: Staying OnShore When the Jobs are Headed OffShore!
- Working with Recruiters, Agents, Head Hunters...
- HR Corner: Oh no! I've Been Off-shored!
- Working with Recruiters, Agents, Head Hunters, Employment Agents, Contingency Search Firms and Retai
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- Back to CM Basics: Change Control
- HR Corner: Summertime the perfect time to crank up your job search...
- "Agile" Change Management - From First Principles to Best Practices
- Behaviorally Speaking: Lessons Learned- Getting Back to Basics!
- HR Corner: Summertime - The Perfect Time to Crank up a Job Search!
- Back to CM Basics: Change Control
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- CM Problems in a Complex Technology Environment
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- Agile SCM: It's All Related
- HR Corner: Is this the Job Market or the Stock Market?
- CM Problems in a Complex Technology Environment
- An Easier Way to Make Job Search Networking Calls
- Integrating an SCM Tool with a Java Development Platform:
- From the Trenches - "Stop! Security! Where Do You Think You're Going"
- Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution
- HR Corner: Have You Been Left in the Dust?
- Executive Career Search After Downsizing
- Security As A Distributed Platforms SCM Change Control Mechanism
- HR Corner: Salary Survey - Are You Being Paid What You are Worth?
- Make Your Career Search a Project!
- Convergence of Software Project and Configuration Management
- Project Management: A Corporate Core Competency
- Planning Projects for Enterprise CM
- HR Corner: Sharing the nightmare of being fired
- Behaviorally Speaking: Agile Processes Can You Understand and Evaluate if They are Right for Your or
- Making SCM Agile
- Employers Need to Bring Hiring Criteria Into Information Age
- Process Based - Better than Agile for Enterprise
- Right-Sizing Software Configuration Management for Agile Projects
- HR Corner: Are you your own worst enemy?
- Content Data Management
- Taming a Wild Web Site
- You Have to Have a Plan, Man
- First you create a Universe
- Behaviorally Speaking: What Does CM Planning Have to do With Behavior?
- Human Resources Corner: Guerrilla Tactics for Job Hunters
- First you Create a Universe
- You have to have a plan, Man
- From the Trenches - "Stop! Security! Where Do You Think You're Going!"
- Creating an SCM Plan to Support Iterative Software Development
- Human Resources Corner: New Years Resolutions - is it time to quit?
- Short List of Predictions For 2003
- Human Resources Corner: New Years Resolutions-Is it Time to Quit?
- Ten Points for Improving the Testing Process
- Testing Requirements are met – What links Requirements to Tests?
- Using CM to Enhance the Testing Process
- Testing Techniques -From Requirements to Coding
- Testing Maturity Model (TMM) Certification
- Human Resources Corner: Commanding a higher salary in tough times!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Becoming a Test Manager. Is This a Career Change?
- Human Resources Corner: Commanding a Higher Salary in Tough Times!
- Testing Requirements are Met: What Links Requirements to Tests?
- Testing Techniques - From Requirements to Coding
- Using CM to Enhance the Testing Process
- Ten Points for Improving the Testing Process
- Testing Maturity Model (TMM) Certification
- Process Perspective: The earlier your Release Management works the more stable your Architecture
- From the Trenches: Release Management 101 - The Basics
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- Process Perspective: The Earlier Your Release Management Works the More Stable Your Architecture
- Human Resources Corner: Layoffs Are Coming-What Can You Do?
- From the Trenches: Release Management 101 - The Basics
- SCM Requirements Management Methodologies
- For better Requirements Management and CM, use eXtreme Programming
- Thinking Outside the Box: What if you managed Requirements
- Integrating a Requirements Management Tool into a Software CM Environment
- For Better Requirements Management and CM, Use eXtreme Programming
- Process Perspective: There is More to Requirements Than Just Use Cases and UML
- SCM Requirements Management Methodologies
- Delivering On Expectations: The Benefits of Integrated Requirements & Configuration Management
- Thinking Outside the Box: What if You Managed Requirements at the Object Level?
- Process Perspective: Keep All Re-use in mind in the Software Development Process
- Software Reuse: Ecology vs. Warehouse
- Web Services and Component-Based Development
- Code Reuse - Fact of Fiction?
- Process Perspective: Keep All Re-use in Mind When Establishing your Software Development Process
- Web Services and Component-Based Development
- Code Reuse - Fact of Fiction?
- Software Reuse: Ecology vs. Warehouse
- Object Reuse Within the Enterprise: A Report From the Field
- The Benefits of Using CM to Control Your Product's Configuration
- Process improvement alone is not the "Silver Bullet"
- Process Improvement Alone is not the "Silver Bullet"
- Behaviorally Speaking: When Your Boss Thinks CM is a Waste of Time!
- The Benefits of Using CM to Control Your Product's Configuration
- The Carrot Works Better than the Stick
- Make your own Best Practice: The ACME Process
- Make your own Best Practice: The ACME Process
- Avoid Role Name Confusion
- The Carrot Works Better than the Stick
- Ensuring Successful Application Development- Defining the Framework
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- Connecting Software Development to Business Objectives
- Integrating developer tools - Intuition vs. Reality
- Integrating Developer Tools - Intuition vs. Reality
- Ensuring Successful Application Development- Defining the Framework
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- Connecting Software Development to Business Objectives
- What Enterprise SCM is, and What Happens when it is Not
- Enterprises Need Higher Level Process Frameworks for Better Control
- What Enterprise SCM is, and What Happens When it is Not
- The "Right" SCM Process
- Tell Me More - Get Happy
- Tell Me More - Get Happy
- The Importance of a Directory Structure for the Development Process
- 2002 Trends for SCM
- Previous Editions
- Editorial Calendar
- CM Journal Articles
- CM Basics
- The Maven Super POM
- Seven Lead Principles
- Getting Started with Maven
- Do you need agents?
- Running a Makefile from Ant
- Rules With Multiple Outputs in GNU Make
- Deciphering a “hand-me-down” build
- Installing a Web Application to an Existing IIS Website using Wix3
- Descrambling parallel build logs
- Designing a CMDB: Buyers Beware!
- What is the difference between a CMS and a CMDB anyway?
- When is Open Source not Enough?
- Build Configurations: The EasyAnt Way
- The concept of "Build Announcement"
- Getting to know your compiler
- GNU Make Rules!
- An Introduction to EasyAnt
- Does Continuous Integration need Standards?
- Getting Your MSBuilds on Target
- What does process really mean?
- Get the Power to do Effective Release Management!
- What is Source Control?
- Structuring Your Release Management Process
- The Value of Configuration Management
- Configuring CruiseControl for Continuous Integration Builds
- What do you need to know about Standards and Frameworks?
- GIT For Basics
- TeamCity Continuous Integration Server
- Working Folders: The Joy of Indifference
- Defining your help desk process
- Strolling through MSBuild
- Structuring your Ant Scripts
- Source Control HOWTO: Repositories
- Got CM Plan?
- File Merge: How Did we Get Ourselves Into This Mess
- How I Came to Value Commercial Build and Deployment Tools
- Using Ant to identify configuration items
- Checkins
- Quick intro to Ant 1.6.5
- A Tale of Two Trees
- A Little More Maven 1.0.2
- Maven 1.0.2 - the walk down memory lane you may very well need!
- Optimizing CruiseControl for Continuous Integration
- Building your java application
- The other way to build
- Don't bug me or maybe you should!
- Getting Started in CM - or what is CM anyway?
- Revisiting the Concept of "Best Practice"
- Checklists – You build me up just to knock me down
- Developers Can Learn a lot From Salespeople
- Managing Change Churn and Complexity
- Case Study: Enterprise & Database CM
- The use of Baselines in a SOA Environment
- Financial Aspects of Configuration Management
- Understanding SCA Modules Baselines
- A Sensible Approach to Access Control in Configuration Management
- Why Your Recovery Should Be At Least As Good As Your Backup
- Controlling SCA Modules
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 5: Team Building for the Cold, Dark, and Alone
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 4: The Largest Case Study of Code Review, Ever
- What to Do With Those Pesky Tags
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 3: Pros and Cons of Four Kinds of Code Review
- Enhancing CM Tools with Triggers
- Securing Your Development Assets - or - I’m Paranoid and Proud of It!
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 2: Why Code Inspections Fail
- Sorting and Searching
- The Case for Peer Review
- Migrating to Subversion
- File Merge: How did we get ourselves into this mess
- How can I improve performance on the Application of ClearCase Labels?
- Part 3 - Subversion Guided Tour
- How can I get "True" Keyword Substitution/Expansion" with ClearCase
- Setting up Subversion Environment
- 5 Keys to Automating Configuration Management for Application Infrastructure
- Introduction to Subversion
- Software Configuration Management - Embracing the principles of ‘5S’
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 4)
- Cash Flow and the Independent/Small Shop Consultant
- The Software Quality Life Cycle - Venturing Beyond the QA Prerogative
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 3)
- Design Pattern 2: Version Control
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 1)
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 1)
- Going Over the Fence
- Say "Yes" and Preserve your Integrity
- Branches
- Fixing the Fix - How Much Does it Really Cost?
- History: Confronting your Past
- Render Myself Redundant
- Bills of Information and Bills of Material
- New Moderator for CM Basics
- Why SCM Should be an Independent Entity
- Configuration Identification Challenges
- The Cobbler's Children of Change Control
- App. Infrastructure Configuration Management Keeps Good Apps from Going Bad
- Horror Story vs. Success Story
- Implementing Serena Dimensions, an Exercise of "It Depends"
- Version Control - Too Much or Too Little?
- Can You Rebuild?
- Enterprise CM
- Perverting Communication
- Welcome to CM Basics
- Who's in Control of Process and Tools in your Organisation / Project?
- The Differences Between CM and DM
- Version Control is a Collaboration Tool
- Persuading Management to Invest in a Formal Team Development Process
- Don't Become Hostage to Development Process Suites
- Merge Branches
- Product Reviews
- Perforce Provides Source Code Management to Improve Developer Productivity
- SpectrumSCM – process centric Source Code Management built from the ground up for excellence!
- DevSuite 7.0 - Sharpening your processes to perfection!
- Kovair - the next generation in automated workflow tools
- Product Review: MKS Integrity 2007 pulls ahead of the competition
- MKS Integrity 2007 pulls ahead of the competition with an integrated and comprehensive ALM solution.
- AccuRev 4.5 - The next generation in SCM
- Guiffy SureMerge 7.2
- WANdisco for CVS, Subversion and CVSNT
- mValent Integrity 3.0.3 Facilitates the Management of J2EE Application Infrastructure Environments
- Perforce 2006
- CM+ Enterprise Sets the Standard for Next Generation ALM Suites
- AccuRev Moves SCM Technology and Process into the Future
- MKS Integrity Suite Sets a New Pace for CM Tools
- AppSight, the Black Box for Your Applications
- FishEye Lends a New Perspective to Version Control
- Firefly Offers a Total SCM Experience
- Comprehensive CM with Razor
- Surround SCM Meets the Challenges
- LCSIS, Artifact Management for Rocket Scientists and Everyone Else
- AccuRev Streams to Success
- BuildForge Puts Your Build Processes in Your Control
- Visual Intercept Tracks Incidents in Style
- AllChange 7.0 Offers a "Customize Everything" Approach
- Columns
- Agile SCM
- The Decline and Fall of Agile SCM (and the Rise of Lean)
- How does software development fit with your ITIL CMDB?
- Beware the IDEs: The Risks of Standardizing on IDEs
- Agile SCM - Review of 2008 and Predictions for 2009
- Agile SCM: Getting Started
- Defining Agile SCM: Past, Present & Future
- Breaking News; Build Still Important, but Deployment is King!
- Product and Project SCM
- An Agile Approach to Release Management
- Transparency improves Governance
- Agile SCM - Review of 2007 and Predictions for 2008
- Testing: It's not just for Agile SCM
- Agile SCM is Testing
- Lean Traceability: a smattering of strategies and solutions
- Lean Traceability with Trustworthy Transparency and Friction-Free Metrics
- Lean Branching
- Lean-based Metrics for Agile CM Environments
- The Renaissance Builder
- Agile SCM January 2007 - Looking Back to Move Forward
- A Christmas (Configuration) Carol (Abridged)
- Agile SCM and Requirements
- Agile SCM: Martial Arts Principles
- Breaking the Major Release Habit - An introduction to the Hyper Agile methodology
- Agile SCM - Relating Patterns to OOD, TBD and POB Principles
- Principles of Agile Version Control: From OOD to POB
- Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution
- Principles of Agile Version Control: From OOD to TBD
- Agile SCM January 2006 - Looking Ahead
- Evolving Beyond Version Control for Agile Development
- Feature-Driven Development - an Agile Alternative to Extreme Programming
- Situational Code Ownership: Dynamically Balancing Individual -vs- Collective Ownership
- Private Workspaces: Where Development Process Meets CM Process
- The Unchangeable Rules of Software Change (and what to do about it)
- Agile SCM 2005 - Reflecting back on the year in books
- Codeline Merging and Locking: Continuous Updates and Two-Phased Commits
- Branching and Merging - An Agile Perspective
- Tasks and Branching Patterns
- National Treasures of Agile Development
- Requirements Based Development- Yes Please! (But How?!)
- The Trouble with Tracing: Traceability Dissected
- Building For Success
- The Importance of Building Earnestly
- The Future of Agile CM
- The Illusion of Control
- The Agile Difference for SCM
- Agile Build Promotion: Navigating the Ocean of Promotion Notions
- Agile SCM: Build Management for an Agile Team
- Release Management - Making it Lean and Agile
- Learning from Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems Design
- Best Practices of Agile SCM
- Agile SCM - Patterns and Software Configuration Management
- Continuous Staging: Scaling Continuous Integration to Multiple Component Teams
- Applying Agile SCM to Databases
- Lessons Learned from Agile SCM
- Codeline Merging and Locking: Continuous Updates and Two-Phased Commits
- Agile SCM – Build Management for an Agile Team
- Continuous Integration - Just another buzz word?
- "Agile" Change Management - from first principles to best practices
- Agile SCM – It’s All Related
- The Need for Agility in SCM
- Agile Configuration Management Environments
- Agile Configuration Management Environments
- Ask Mr. Make
- Rules With Multiple Outputs in GNU Make
- Descrambling parallel build logs
- Managing Change Churn and Complexity
- Tips and Tricks From the Automatic Dependency Generation Masters
- The Trouble with Hidden Targets
- Tracing rule execution in GNU Make
- Adding set operations to GNU Make
- The Basics: VPATH and vpath
- The GNU Make Standard Library
- Makefile Optimization: $(eval) and macro caching
- Learning Make with the Towers of Hanoi
- Usman's Law
- GNU Make user-defined functions, part 2
- GNU Make user-defined functions, part 1
- GNU Make path handling
- GMSL 1.09: A look inside the tweaks and updates
- Makefile Debugging: A introduction to remake
- GNU Make escaping: a walk on the wild side
- Painless non-recursive Make
- Atomic Rules in GNU Make
- GNU Make meets file names with spaces in them
- Making an XML bill of materials in GNU Make
- The Basics: Getting environment variables into GNU Make
- The pitfalls and benefits of GNU Make parallelization
- Target-specific and Pattern-specific GNU Make macros
- Making directories in GNU Make
- Rebuilding When a File's Checksum Changes
- What's new in GNU Make 3.81
- Rebuilding When CPPFLAGS Changes
- Dynamic Breakpoints in the GNU Make Debugger
- What's New in GMSL 1.0.2
- What's New in GMSL 1.0.2
- An Interactive GNU Make Debugger
- Makefile Assertions
- The Trouble with $(wildcard)
- GNU Make Gotcha: ifndef and ?=
- Learning GNU Make Functions with Arithmetic
- Self-Documenting Makefiles
- Makefile Optimization: $(shell) and := go Together
- Setting a Makefile Variable From Outside the Makefile
- Makefile Debugging: Tracing Macro Values
- Dumping Every Makefile Variable
- Printing the Value of a Makefile Variable
- Behaviorally Speaking
- Behaviorally Speaking – 2010 – the Year Ahead
- Behaviorally Speaking – Year End Wrap-up – Lessons Learned and Goals Achieved
- Behaviorally Speaking – SCM Essentials for Small Teams
- Behaviorally Speaking – Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Behaviorally Speaking – Implementing Standards and Frameworks
- Behaviorally Speaking - CM Planning or Planning for CM
- Behaviorally Speaking – Release Management Essentials
- Behaviorally Speaking – Build and Deployment Essentials
- Behaviorally Speaking - Evaluating and Selecting the Right Tools
- Behaviorally Speaking: Product versus Project
- Lessons Learned - Worst Mistakes Ever Made!
- Behaviorally Speaking - Predictions for the Coming Year - 2009
- Behaviorally Speaking - Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool
- Behaviorally Speaking - Web 2.0 means CM 2.0
- Behaviorally Speaking - SCM Essentials for small teams
- Behaviorally Speaking - Release Management
- Managing Globally Distributed CM
- Behaviorally Speaking - IT governance and compliance - providing transparency to senior management
- Behaviorally Speaking - Standards - who needs them anyway?
- Behaviorally Speaking - My 7 Predictions for the coming year
- What does CM have to do with testing?
- Which best practice is best?
- Overcoming Resistance to Change in 2007
- When the build fails - the Business of Software Development
- Improving Application Quality and searching for what’s broken
- Behaviorally Speaking: Software Testing, Quality and CM
- Behaviorally Speaking: Assessing the Threat to the Production Environment
- Behaviorally Speaking: Distributed Development
- Behaviorally Speaking - The Future of CM!
- Behaviorally Speaking: So how do we really create "best" practices?
- Behaviorally Speaking: So How do we Really Create "Best" Practices?
- Behaviorally Speaking: SCM Patterns - are they really practical?
- Behaviorally Speaking: Business Level Change Management - SPI or die!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Business Level Change Management - SPI or Die!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Automating the Software Build and Release Management Process...
- Behaviorally Speaking: Merge Mania!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Build Management- A Critical Milestone in the Release Management Process!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Continuous Integration- Managing Chaos for Quality!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Systems Security - CM is the Missing Link!!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Project Management - What Does CM Have to do With it?
- Behaviorally Speaking: People, Process and Technology in Diverse Development Environments!
- Behaviorally speaking: Content Management -The argument against process!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Predictions for the Coming Year
- Behaviorally Speaking: Release Management: Why I love this job...
- Behaviorally Speaking: Managing Requirements - Do we practice what we preach?
- Behaviorally Speaking: Managing Requirements
- Behaviorally Speaking: Homeland Security "Is CM Really Relevant?"
- Behaviorally Speaking: Open Systems Analysis and Planning
- Behaviorally Speaking: The Effects of Application Development in the Global Enterprise
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Behaviorally Speaking: Defining the Software Development Life Cycle
- CM: The Next Generation
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - The 2010s
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Another Year Gone By
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Branching Standards
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION: CM Planning
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Build Essentials
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Evaluating and Selecting CM/ALM Tools
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Project vs Product SCM Using Dashboards
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Don't Let Our Mistakes Hold Us Back
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of ALM is on Our Doorstep
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Evaluating and Selecting a CM/ALM Tool
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Web-Based ALM
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Build Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of SCM For Small Business
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Release Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of ALM Transparency
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Software CM Standards
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of CM/ALM Architecture
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Test Case Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Top 10 Best Practices
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Tool Integration and Toolkits
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Quality Requirements
- Traceability and Auditability: Satisfying your Customers
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Configuration Management Planning - Before you Start
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Integrated CM/PM
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Agile CM
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Quality in your Configuration
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Metrics
- NEXT GENERATION CM: Building: Change Management First
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Where Are We ... Going
- The Business of Software Development
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Building Reliable Applications
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Seamlessly Integrated CM/ALM Suites
- Do Your CM/ALM Tools Help Secure Your Development Assets?
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Best Practices
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION: From Version Control to Product Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Agile Configuration Management
- CM: The Next Generation. Will Open-Source Dominate Development Management?
- CM: The Next Generation
- Using CM to Manage Application Deployment
- To Branch or Not To Branch (and Merge/Test)
- Workspace Management Front and Center
- Using Merge To Yank A Change
- Automating CM or Application Lifecycle Management
- The Journey Through Traceability to Process Control
- Requirements Driven Development: A Stream-Based WBS Approach
- Is It Upward Compatible?
- Testing and CM - A High Quality Marriage
- CM: The Nerve of Your Life Cycle Management
- Evaluating CM Tools
- The Road To Production Quality
- Configuration Management VS Change Management - Who's in Control
- Integrated Tools Enhance Distributed Development
- Multi-Site Servers - Get it Right
- CM Generations and a Vision for the Future
- Metrics and Process Maturity
- Making Incremental Integration Work for You
- Changes: The Crossroads Between Project CM and Product CM
- Moving Dependency Tracking Into The CM Process
- Taking the Complexity out of Release Management
- Implementation Excellence
- Cloudy with a Chance of Agility – CM Predictions for 2010
- Value of Configuration Management by Agile Professionals
- What is a CM Tool?
- Infrastructure - on Premises or in the Clouds?
- Culture, Methods, and Governance and Their Impact on CM
- Envelope Please - 2009 Predictions for Configuration Management
- Infrastructure Envisioning
- CM Planning for a Downturn in the Economy
- What is a CM Tool?
- Framework for Evaluating and Implementing Standards
- Infrastructure Refactoring
- Release Management, the Super Discipline
- Applying CM to Agile Teams
- How Release Management can help Agile Teams
- Bringing Business Value to IT Governance
- Envelope Please - 2008 Predictions in the CM/ALM Space
- Constructing a Best Practice
- 2007 Study of Myers-Briggs Types Relative to CM Professionals
- Allowing Project Management (PM) to Help Configuration Management (CM)
- Building a Meaningful Metric Mousetrap
- Envelope Please - 2007 CM Predictions
- Building Requirements Quality thru Coverage and Testability
- From Peer Review to Pair Programming
- Agile - It's Not the Wild West
- Assessing CM in the Development Process
- Assessing CM in the Development Process
- Approaching 2006 - CM Predictions
- CM Roles, Responsibilities, Skills, and Job Descriptions
- Antipatterns of a Private Workspace
- Levels of an SCM Product Evaluation and their Associated Risk
- ABCs of Requirements Engineering
- Building a Configuration Management (CM) Capability for Test
- Aircraft Carrier Called the "CM"
- Approaching Code Access for Distributed Development
- Announcing the 2005 CM Predictions
- Approaching Continuous Integration
- Application, Project, and Organization Level CM
- ABCs of BPD (Build, Package and Deploy)
- ABCs of Release Management
- Comparing the Relative Value of CM Practices
- Antipatterns of Change Control
- A Target Approach for who should Manage Change
- Approaching the Implementation of CM
- Approaching Parallel Development
- ABCs of a Branching and Merging Strategy
- A Study of Myers-Briggs Types Relative to CM Professionals
- A Study of Myers-Briggs Types Relative to CM Professionals
- The Dimensions of SCM Planning
- Going Global for 2003
- The Road to Quality
- Change Management is not Change Control
- Tool Choice as a Quality Issue
- Standards That Are Worth Following
- The Definition of "Done"
- The One Right Way to Achieve High-Quality Requirements:
- Audit Trails, Traceability - Because Sometimes Things Go Wrong (And no, they are not to place blame!
- Pragmatic Agile Development - The PAD Roadmap
- Is Your Metrics Database Write-Only?
- Assuring Quality: Beyond Testing & Reviews
- Software Quality -- Service Quality; What's the Difference?
- Does Senior Management Really Care About Quality?
- Quality is Not My Job
- The Risk of Regression
- Testing vs. Quality Assurance
- Agility and Quality
- High-Quality Processes
- Affordable Peer Reviews
- Establishing Unit Test Criteria
- Establishing Unit Test Criteria
- Partnership For Success
- A High-Quality Plan
- Consistent Quality Requires Consistent Processes
- Yes, You Can Review Your Own Work!
- Reducing Your Cost of Quality
- Implementing Standards
- Product Reviews
- Perforce Provides Source Code Management to Improve Developer Productivity
- SpectrumSCM – process centric Source Code Management built from the ground up for excellence!
- DevSuite 7.0 - Sharpening your processes to perfection!
- Kovair - the next generation in automated workflow tools
- Product Review: MKS Integrity 2007 pulls ahead of the competition
- MKS Integrity 2007 pulls ahead of the competition with an integrated and comprehensive ALM solution.
- AccuRev 4.5 - The next generation in SCM
- Guiffy SureMerge 7.2
- WANdisco for CVS, Subversion and CVSNT
- mValent Integrity 3.0.3 Facilitates the Management of J2EE Application Infrastructure Environments
- Perforce 2006
- CM+ Enterprise Sets the Standard for Next Generation ALM Suites
- AccuRev Moves SCM Technology and Process into the Future
- MKS Integrity Suite Sets a New Pace for CM Tools
- AppSight, the Black Box for Your Applications
- FishEye Lends a New Perspective to Version Control
- Firefly Offers a Total SCM Experience
- Comprehensive CM with Razor
- Surround SCM Meets the Challenges
- LCSIS, Artifact Management for Rocket Scientists and Everyone Else
- AccuRev Streams to Success
- BuildForge Puts Your Build Processes in Your Control
- Visual Intercept Tracks Incidents in Style
- AllChange 7.0 Offers a "Customize Everything" Approach
- Book of the Month
- Software Configuration Management
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: Implementation Patterns
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: Secure Programming with Static Analysis
- Mastering the Requirements Process
- Metrics-Driven Enterprise Software Development:
- Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
- Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
- Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
- CMMI(R) for Outsourcing: Guidelines for Software, Systems, and IT Acquisition
- Version Control with Subversion by C. Michael Pilato
- CMMI® Second Edition Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: CMMI Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Build Master: Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: Implementing IBM Rational ClearQuest
- CM Journal
- FEATURED BOOK: Adapting Configuration Management to Agile Teams: Balancing Sustainability and Speed
- 2010 Trends in Project Management
- CM Journal - January 2010
- Small Teams in a Large Organization
- Database Compare and Synchronize Methods as a Part of the Software Release Management Process
- Electric Cloud’s Software Development Predictions for 2010
- TOP 5 TIPS: Getting a Jump on IT Spending for 2010
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and 15288: The Entry-Level Standards for Process Definition - Part 2
- CM Journal - December 2009
- CM Wrap-up for 2009 and Predictions for 2010
- Effective Open Source Software Adoption for Compliance with Legal Obligations
- The State of IT Change
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of SCM Essentials for Small Business
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and 15288: The Entry-Level Standards for Process Definition - Part 1
- Small Teams and SCM
- Overcoming Resistance to Change by SCM
- Personality Matters - Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Experience Report: Engineering Change in a Large Organization
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Personality Matters – Implementing Standards and Frameworks
- Lean Six Sigma for Software Process Excellence
- Rationale for Standards
- Personality Matters – CM Planning or Planning for CM
- The Downward Spiral, or a Definition of a Mess
- Software Configuration Management Planning
- Lessons for Environmentally Friendly Configuration Management
- Personality Matters - Release Management Essentials
- Release Management
- Dicta RM
- Handling Build Binaries: A Case Study
- A pragmatic approach to Build and Deployment management
- Build and Deploy across multiple platforms
- Don't be a Fool, Choose the Right Tool
- People, Processes and Tools
- Process Tool Selection Guidelines
- Personality Matters – Taming the Wild Tools Selection Process
- Promoting Tools Within an Organization
- SCM Assessment
- Applying Software Configuration Management Methodology to Database Development
- Evaluating and Selecting CM Tools - A Perspective
- Options for Promoting and Controlling Changes in Risk Adverse Environments
- Keep The Change
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Change Control
- Welcoming Change
- Grokking Change
- Personality Matters - Change Control or Control of Changes
- Business-Level Change Management
- Antipatterns of Change Control
- Behaviorally Speaking - Change Control or Control of Changes
- ABCs of BPD (Build, Package and Deploy)
- Breaking News; Build Still Important, but Deployment is King!
- Business-Level Change Management
- Product versus Project - Where to Focus Your Efforts
- Big Picture or Little Picture – Where to Focus?
- Business Criticality and the Investment of CM
- The Lessons Learned – Worst Mistakes Ever Made
- Really, Really Bad Mistakes
- What's In A Name?
- Look Forward to Slow Change in 2009
- Predictions for the Coming Year - 2009
- Large Scale Continuous Integration
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Behaviorally Speaking - CM Planning
- CM Planning in Turbulent Times
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of the CM Plan
- Configuration Management Primer For Hiring Managers: Two Different Jobs Confused By The Same Title
- The CMP - An Alternate Approach
- Result-driven Testing: Start Adding Value to Your Organization
- Evaluating and Selecting CM Tools - A Perspective
- Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool
- HR Corner - Layoffs, credit crunch, bad economy and CM 2.0!
- Evolution of Life Cycles
- Behaviorally Speaking - Build and Deployment Management
- Continuous Integration and Enterprise Build Automation
- Using a Commercial Tool to Automate a Build and Deployment Process
- Finding meaning in your Build and Deploy Process
- Behaviorally Speaking - Project vs. Product SCM
- Neck Deep In the Big Muddy: Countering the Protective Collective Inertia of Failed IT Projects
- Product vs. Project SCM
- SCM Essentials For Small Teams
- Small Team Essentials: An SCM Perspective
- Can Configuration Management Defend You Against Information Asymmetry?
- "Agile" Means Disciplined SCM
- SCM Essentials for Small Teams
- Release Management
- Release Engineering Best Practices
- SCM Techniques #4 - Longacre Deployment Management & Project Baseline
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #4 - Schedule & Technological Diversity
- IT Governance and Compliance
- Is Your Development Going Global?
- Transparency and Accountability
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Globally Distributed CM
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #3
- Automated Defect Prevention - Best Practices in Software Management
- Role of Management in an Iterative and Agile Software Development Environment
- Effective IT GRC Starts at the Top
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #2
- SCM Techniques #3
- An Automated Infrastructure and Workflow for Process Improvement
- Test
- Process compliance sans documentation: You must be joking!!!!
- Standards – are they really needed?
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge
- SCM Techniques Number 2
- Standard Performance
- Four Lessons about Company Standards and Procedures from Build Management
- Personality Matters: do Standards threaten one's individualism and creativity?
- Standards: The What, Why and When
- Look Forward to More of the Same in 2008
- SCM Techniques: Kicking Off
- Getting your job search in gear
- Personality Matters: Predictions for 2008
- Metrics for SCM - analysis and experience.
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 3
- Metrics as a Method of Quality Testing
- CM and the new math: Teamwork when 1 plus 1 equals 3
- Process in an Agile World
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 2
- First Practice
- Build Quality In The Agile Methods are right!
- CM Tool Chains & Their Management
- Extending the SCM Value Chain by Unifying PPM and Configuration Management
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 1
- Metrics for SCM - a literature overview
- Getting Requirements Right the First Time: Four-Step Process for Effective Requirements Definition
- In a flat world there are many potholes
- Minimizing the Requirements GIGO Factor
- When to use Staged Integration
- Traceability and Auditability
- Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for Process Improvement Program
- Traceability & Auditability: Do you really know what went into production?
- Consider Role Based Configuration Management
- Do the Right Thing!
- Build Forensics – linking production to development
- Rapid Response or Reactive CM - Responding to the Demands of Agile Development
- "You've Got to Have Rhythm, Setting the Tempo for Agile Development"
- ‘Oh Process!' - How does it matter?
- SCM metrics - a response.
- Quality in Configurations
- Managing Change Churn and Complexity
- Technical Introduction to Longacre Deployment Management™
- SOX and J-SOX Primer
- Improving Windows Availability
- Metric Mania
- Metrics for Fun and Profit
- Build Types Vs. Build Promotions
- Knowledge Empowerment for the Virtual Development Team
- Are You Still Building from the Tip Revisions?
- Building In Today’s CM World
- Application Lifecycle Management - A Look Back
- Application Lifecycle Management - A Look Back
- 2007: A Year of Open-Source Acceptance
- A Sensible Approach to Access Control in Configuration Management
- Osmosis
- The Business of Software Development
- Configuration Management in an SOA Environment
- Configuration Management and Simplicity - The Five "T" Approach to Keeping it Simple
- Requirements and Analysis
- Measure what Matters
- Building Reliable Applications
- Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Infrastructure Management Keeps Reliable Applications in the Race
- Integrated Tool Suites – Pros and Cons
- Taking Territory
- Managing Vendor Code Customizations with Stream-based SCM
- Improving Application Quality by Controlling Application Infrastructure
- Career Search Networking: Putting The Plan Into Action
- P-P Matrix for panoramic view of Process Compliance
- How to Improve Your Software Development Process Without Really Messing Things Up
- Empty page
- Using Policies to Effectively Integrate Configuration Management into the Development Process
- What do Enterprise Architecture principles require of Configuration Management?
- Version Control vs. Configuration Management
- Athletic Tape for Software Development
- Moving management to benefit from Configuration Management over Version Control
- Managing Dispersed Development Teams for Productivity
- Integrating IT For Productivity
- Motorcycle CM
- Open Source or Open Season?
- Open Source Strategies
- Addressing Concerns Of Performance Of Integration Builds
- Open Source, and other Dumb Ideas
- La mort du CM (and Other Predictions)
- Future of CM: Standards Is A Key To Transparent Change
- The Future of ALM and CM
- Reasons Why
- Avoiding Continuous Integration Build Breakage Patterns
- The "Right" SCM Process
- Experience Report: Using the Stable Receiving-Line to Support Parallel Development
- Experience Report: Using the Stable Receiving-Line to Support Parallel Development
- Open Source Development Community Drives Processes Benefiting Enterprise Applications
- Finding the Balance
- Capacity Planning For Software Build Management Servers
- Tool Purchase Afterbirth
- A Project Based Approach for Evaluating SCM Tools
- Gauging the Impact
- Practicing Requirements Based Development
- The Only Constant in This World is Change
- What to Say When you First Meet People and How to Follow up.
- Using Process-Enabled SCM Tools to Facilitate the Software Development Lifecycle
- A Bridge Too Far?
- Career Search Networking: Putting The Plan Into Action
- Ordinary Exceptions
- The Plan: A Career Search Strategy for the 21st Century - Part 2
- Distributed SCM
- Bills of Information and Bills of Material
- Mature in America?
- The Plan: A Career Search Strategy for the 21st Century
- Is There a Source Control "Silver Bullet"?
- Graphs for Change Requests
- Automation: Aspirin for WebSphere Migration Headaches
- Another Tool in Your Bag of Tricks (Part 3)
- The New Employment Economy
- The Role of Incremental Integration in a Parallel Development Environment
- Another Tool in Your Bag of Tricks (Part 2)
- A Trustworthy 3-Way Merge
- Another Tool in your Bag of Tricks (Part 1)
- Loving the Evil Twin
- SCM: An Important Focal Point
- The Nuts and Bolts of Release Builds
- Defining moments
- Release Management
- The Challenges Posed by Parallel Development on Release Management
- The Role of Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Standards and Best Practices
- Don't Let Your Controlled Build Process be Undermined by Sloppy Deployments (2)
- SCM Patterns: Building on Task-Level Commit
- Parallel Software Development is the New Normal
- How to integrate continuously evolving Product versions
- Build and Integrate Early and Often
- SCM Best Practices - Determining Which Practices Are Best for You
- Variation Management in Software Product Lines
- HR Corner: Beware of the Saboteur!
- HR Corner: Managing Your OffShore Staff...
- Golden Patterns and Symmetries in Concurrent Development
- Don't Let Your Controlled Build Process be Undermined by Sloppy Deployments (Part 1 of 2)
- Using SCM Patterns to Integrate SCM with Software Development
- Behaviorally Speaking: SCM Patterns - Are They Really Practical?
- HR Corner: Managing Your Off Shore Staff...
- Learner-Centric, a unique approach to training
- "Insanity is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Implementation Methodologies
- Strategic Weakness: SCM Implementation Risks
- Implementation Methodologies - When cultures clash!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Implementation Methodologies - When Cultures Clash!!
- HR Corner: What is Cultural Sensitivity Anyway?
- Learn from your Vendor: Solution Selling
- HR Corner: Automating your job search!
- SCM Predictions: Are We There Yet?
- Determine Your Team's SCM Needs Before Automating!
- Integrate Software Configuration Management with Software Development
- HR Corner: Automating your Job Search!
- Logs Aren't Just For Your Holiday Fire
- Integrated Software Development - The ‘Good Parts' Version
- A Practical Approach for Selecting and Adopting an SCM Tool
- Behaviorally Speaking: What We've Learned - The Hard Way...
- HR Corner: What We've Learned About Job Hunting...
- Beyond Continuous Integration, A Holistic Approach to Build Management (Part 2 of 2)
- Dealing with the Aversion to Mergin'
- Merging Defect Fixes into the Development Codeline
- HR Corner: Games Headhunters Play...
- Beyond Continuous Integration, A Holistic Approach to Build Management (Part 1 of 2)
- Challenges and Strategies for Building and Deploying J2EE Applications
- Managing build variants with a better bootstrap
- The Job Market And Today's Growing Economy
- HR Corner: Staying OnShore When the Jobs are Headed OffShore!
- Working with Recruiters, Agents, Head Hunters...
- HR Corner: Oh no! I've Been Off-shored!
- Working with Recruiters, Agents, Head Hunters, Employment Agents, Contingency Search Firms and Retai
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- Back to CM Basics: Change Control
- HR Corner: Summertime the perfect time to crank up your job search...
- "Agile" Change Management - From First Principles to Best Practices
- Behaviorally Speaking: Lessons Learned- Getting Back to Basics!
- HR Corner: Summertime - The Perfect Time to Crank up a Job Search!
- Back to CM Basics: Change Control
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- CM Problems in a Complex Technology Environment
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- Agile SCM: It's All Related
- HR Corner: Is this the Job Market or the Stock Market?
- CM Problems in a Complex Technology Environment
- An Easier Way to Make Job Search Networking Calls
- Integrating an SCM Tool with a Java Development Platform:
- From the Trenches - "Stop! Security! Where Do You Think You're Going"
- Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution
- HR Corner: Have You Been Left in the Dust?
- Executive Career Search After Downsizing
- Security As A Distributed Platforms SCM Change Control Mechanism
- HR Corner: Salary Survey - Are You Being Paid What You are Worth?
- Make Your Career Search a Project!
- Convergence of Software Project and Configuration Management
- Project Management: A Corporate Core Competency
- Planning Projects for Enterprise CM
- HR Corner: Sharing the nightmare of being fired
- Behaviorally Speaking: Agile Processes Can You Understand and Evaluate if They are Right for Your or
- Making SCM Agile
- Employers Need to Bring Hiring Criteria Into Information Age
- Process Based - Better than Agile for Enterprise
- Right-Sizing Software Configuration Management for Agile Projects
- HR Corner: Are you your own worst enemy?
- Content Data Management
- Taming a Wild Web Site
- You Have to Have a Plan, Man
- First you create a Universe
- Behaviorally Speaking: What Does CM Planning Have to do With Behavior?
- Human Resources Corner: Guerrilla Tactics for Job Hunters
- First you Create a Universe
- You have to have a plan, Man
- From the Trenches - "Stop! Security! Where Do You Think You're Going!"
- Creating an SCM Plan to Support Iterative Software Development
- Human Resources Corner: New Years Resolutions - is it time to quit?
- Short List of Predictions For 2003
- Human Resources Corner: New Years Resolutions-Is it Time to Quit?
- Ten Points for Improving the Testing Process
- Testing Requirements are met – What links Requirements to Tests?
- Using CM to Enhance the Testing Process
- Testing Techniques -From Requirements to Coding
- Testing Maturity Model (TMM) Certification
- Human Resources Corner: Commanding a higher salary in tough times!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Becoming a Test Manager. Is This a Career Change?
- Human Resources Corner: Commanding a Higher Salary in Tough Times!
- Testing Requirements are Met: What Links Requirements to Tests?
- Testing Techniques - From Requirements to Coding
- Using CM to Enhance the Testing Process
- Ten Points for Improving the Testing Process
- Testing Maturity Model (TMM) Certification
- Process Perspective: The earlier your Release Management works the more stable your Architecture
- From the Trenches: Release Management 101 - The Basics
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- Process Perspective: The Earlier Your Release Management Works the More Stable Your Architecture
- Human Resources Corner: Layoffs Are Coming-What Can You Do?
- From the Trenches: Release Management 101 - The Basics
- SCM Requirements Management Methodologies
- For better Requirements Management and CM, use eXtreme Programming
- Thinking Outside the Box: What if you managed Requirements
- Integrating a Requirements Management Tool into a Software CM Environment
- For Better Requirements Management and CM, Use eXtreme Programming
- Process Perspective: There is More to Requirements Than Just Use Cases and UML
- SCM Requirements Management Methodologies
- Delivering On Expectations: The Benefits of Integrated Requirements & Configuration Management
- Thinking Outside the Box: What if You Managed Requirements at the Object Level?
- Process Perspective: Keep All Re-use in mind in the Software Development Process
- Software Reuse: Ecology vs. Warehouse
- Web Services and Component-Based Development
- Code Reuse - Fact of Fiction?
- Process Perspective: Keep All Re-use in Mind When Establishing your Software Development Process
- Web Services and Component-Based Development
- Code Reuse - Fact of Fiction?
- Software Reuse: Ecology vs. Warehouse
- Object Reuse Within the Enterprise: A Report From the Field
- The Benefits of Using CM to Control Your Product's Configuration
- Process improvement alone is not the "Silver Bullet"
- Process Improvement Alone is not the "Silver Bullet"
- Behaviorally Speaking: When Your Boss Thinks CM is a Waste of Time!
- The Benefits of Using CM to Control Your Product's Configuration
- The Carrot Works Better than the Stick
- Make your own Best Practice: The ACME Process
- Make your own Best Practice: The ACME Process
- Avoid Role Name Confusion
- The Carrot Works Better than the Stick
- Ensuring Successful Application Development- Defining the Framework
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- Connecting Software Development to Business Objectives
- Integrating developer tools - Intuition vs. Reality
- Integrating Developer Tools - Intuition vs. Reality
- Ensuring Successful Application Development- Defining the Framework
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- Connecting Software Development to Business Objectives
- What Enterprise SCM is, and What Happens when it is Not
- Enterprises Need Higher Level Process Frameworks for Better Control
- What Enterprise SCM is, and What Happens When it is Not
- The "Right" SCM Process
- Tell Me More - Get Happy
- Tell Me More - Get Happy
- The Importance of a Directory Structure for the Development Process
- 2002 Trends for SCM
- CM Basics
- The Maven Super POM
- Seven Lead Principles
- Getting Started with Maven
- Do you need agents?
- Running a Makefile from Ant
- Rules With Multiple Outputs in GNU Make
- Deciphering a “hand-me-down” build
- Installing a Web Application to an Existing IIS Website using Wix3
- Descrambling parallel build logs
- Designing a CMDB: Buyers Beware!
- What is the difference between a CMS and a CMDB anyway?
- When is Open Source not Enough?
- Build Configurations: The EasyAnt Way
- The concept of "Build Announcement"
- Getting to know your compiler
- GNU Make Rules!
- An Introduction to EasyAnt
- Does Continuous Integration need Standards?
- Getting Your MSBuilds on Target
- What does process really mean?
- Get the Power to do Effective Release Management!
- What is Source Control?
- Structuring Your Release Management Process
- The Value of Configuration Management
- Configuring CruiseControl for Continuous Integration Builds
- What do you need to know about Standards and Frameworks?
- GIT For Basics
- TeamCity Continuous Integration Server
- Working Folders: The Joy of Indifference
- Defining your help desk process
- Strolling through MSBuild
- Structuring your Ant Scripts
- Source Control HOWTO: Repositories
- Got CM Plan?
- File Merge: How Did we Get Ourselves Into This Mess
- How I Came to Value Commercial Build and Deployment Tools
- Using Ant to identify configuration items
- Checkins
- Quick intro to Ant 1.6.5
- A Tale of Two Trees
- A Little More Maven 1.0.2
- Maven 1.0.2 - the walk down memory lane you may very well need!
- Optimizing CruiseControl for Continuous Integration
- Building your java application
- The other way to build
- Don't bug me or maybe you should!
- Getting Started in CM - or what is CM anyway?
- Revisiting the Concept of "Best Practice"
- Checklists – You build me up just to knock me down
- Developers Can Learn a lot From Salespeople
- Managing Change Churn and Complexity
- Case Study: Enterprise & Database CM
- The use of Baselines in a SOA Environment
- Financial Aspects of Configuration Management
- Understanding SCA Modules Baselines
- A Sensible Approach to Access Control in Configuration Management
- Why Your Recovery Should Be At Least As Good As Your Backup
- Controlling SCA Modules
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 5: Team Building for the Cold, Dark, and Alone
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 4: The Largest Case Study of Code Review, Ever
- What to Do With Those Pesky Tags
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 3: Pros and Cons of Four Kinds of Code Review
- Enhancing CM Tools with Triggers
- Securing Your Development Assets - or - I’m Paranoid and Proud of It!
- Lightweight Code Review Episode 2: Why Code Inspections Fail
- Sorting and Searching
- The Case for Peer Review
- Migrating to Subversion
- File Merge: How did we get ourselves into this mess
- How can I improve performance on the Application of ClearCase Labels?
- Part 3 - Subversion Guided Tour
- How can I get "True" Keyword Substitution/Expansion" with ClearCase
- Setting up Subversion Environment
- 5 Keys to Automating Configuration Management for Application Infrastructure
- Introduction to Subversion
- Software Configuration Management - Embracing the principles of ‘5S’
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 4)
- Cash Flow and the Independent/Small Shop Consultant
- The Software Quality Life Cycle - Venturing Beyond the QA Prerogative
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 3)
- Design Pattern 2: Version Control
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 1)
- Design Patterns for Software Configuration Management (Part 1)
- Going Over the Fence
- Say "Yes" and Preserve your Integrity
- Branches
- Fixing the Fix - How Much Does it Really Cost?
- History: Confronting your Past
- Render Myself Redundant
- Bills of Information and Bills of Material
- New Moderator for CM Basics
- Why SCM Should be an Independent Entity
- Configuration Identification Challenges
- The Cobbler's Children of Change Control
- App. Infrastructure Configuration Management Keeps Good Apps from Going Bad
- Horror Story vs. Success Story
- Implementing Serena Dimensions, an Exercise of "It Depends"
- Version Control - Too Much or Too Little?
- Can You Rebuild?
- Enterprise CM
- Perverting Communication
- Welcome to CM Basics
- Who's in Control of Process and Tools in your Organisation / Project?
- The Differences Between CM and DM
- Version Control is a Collaboration Tool
- Persuading Management to Invest in a Formal Team Development Process
- Don't Become Hostage to Development Process Suites
- Merge Branches
- Another articles
- Editors Note
- Agile SCM
- Requirements Articles
- Pros and Cons of Requirements-Based Software Testing
- Agile Requirements, In Context - article originally published by modernanalyst.com
- Requirements Management in an Agile World - Does it Make Sense?
- MKS Integrity 2007 pulls ahead of the competition with an integrated and comprehensive ALM solution.
- Three Tips to Improve Your Requirements-Based Testing (RBT)
- Requirements Based Testing - Ambiguity Reviews
- Requirement Based Functional Testing
- Risk and Requirements-based Testing
- The Value of Requirements-Based Testing
- What Is Requirements-Based Testing?
- Dispersed Teams Forcing Closer Look at Managing Requirements (CW)
- Prioritization Puzzles: Practices for Prioritizing Your Product Requirements
- Use Cases and Implementing Application Lifecycle Management Systems
- MKS Makes Requirements Reusable
- So You Want To Be a Requirements Analyst?
- Requirements Based Development- Yes Please! (But How?!)
- ABCs of Requirements Engineering
- Practicing Requirements Based Development
- Software Quality Articles
- IT Compliance Articles
- The GRC Support Ecosystem and Practices That Drive It
- Identity Theft Isn't Just a Personal Risk: Are You Protecting Your Customers?
- Implementing IT compliance frameworks to help your organization achieve improved productivity
- IT GOVERNANCE -ITIL Power
- Auditing Business Continuity
- Findings - The Best Best Practices
- Ten Principles of IT Governance
- Operational IT Governance
- A Beginner's Guide to Auditing the AS/400 Operating System
- A Survey of Application Security in Current International Standards
- The Val IT Story
- Global Compliance Initiatives: What do They Mean for Me?
- Keeping Score in the IT Compliance Game
- Ask Mr. Make
- Rules With Multiple Outputs in GNU Make
- Descrambling parallel build logs
- Managing Change Churn and Complexity
- Tips and Tricks From the Automatic Dependency Generation Masters
- The Trouble with Hidden Targets
- Tracing rule execution in GNU Make
- Adding set operations to GNU Make
- The Basics: VPATH and vpath
- The GNU Make Standard Library
- Makefile Optimization: $(eval) and macro caching
- Learning Make with the Towers of Hanoi
- Usman's Law
- GNU Make user-defined functions, part 2
- GNU Make user-defined functions, part 1
- GNU Make path handling
- GMSL 1.09: A look inside the tweaks and updates
- Makefile Debugging: A introduction to remake
- GNU Make escaping: a walk on the wild side
- Painless non-recursive Make
- Atomic Rules in GNU Make
- GNU Make meets file names with spaces in them
- Making an XML bill of materials in GNU Make
- The Basics: Getting environment variables into GNU Make
- The pitfalls and benefits of GNU Make parallelization
- Target-specific and Pattern-specific GNU Make macros
- Making directories in GNU Make
- Rebuilding When a File's Checksum Changes
- What's new in GNU Make 3.81
- Rebuilding When CPPFLAGS Changes
- Dynamic Breakpoints in the GNU Make Debugger
- What's New in GMSL 1.0.2
- What's New in GMSL 1.0.2
- An Interactive GNU Make Debugger
- Makefile Assertions
- The Trouble with $(wildcard)
- GNU Make Gotcha: ifndef and ?=
- Learning GNU Make Functions with Arithmetic
- Self-Documenting Makefiles
- Makefile Optimization: $(shell) and := go Together
- Setting a Makefile Variable From Outside the Makefile
- Makefile Debugging: Tracing Macro Values
- Dumping Every Makefile Variable
- Printing the Value of a Makefile Variable
- Book of the Month
- Software Configuration Management
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: Implementation Patterns
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: Secure Programming with Static Analysis
- Mastering the Requirements Process
- Metrics-Driven Enterprise Software Development:
- Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
- Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
- Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
- CMMI(R) for Outsourcing: Guidelines for Software, Systems, and IT Acquisition
- Version Control with Subversion by C. Michael Pilato
- CMMI® Second Edition Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: CMMI Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Build Master: Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices
- BOOK OF THE MONTH: Implementing IBM Rational ClearQuest
- CM: The Next Generation
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - The 2010s
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Another Year Gone By
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Branching Standards
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION: CM Planning
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Build Essentials
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Evaluating and Selecting CM/ALM Tools
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Project vs Product SCM Using Dashboards
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Don't Let Our Mistakes Hold Us Back
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of ALM is on Our Doorstep
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Evaluating and Selecting a CM/ALM Tool
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Web-Based ALM
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Build Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of SCM For Small Business
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Release Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of ALM Transparency
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Software CM Standards
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of CM/ALM Architecture
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Test Case Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Top 10 Best Practices
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Tool Integration and Toolkits
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Quality Requirements
- Traceability and Auditability: Satisfying your Customers
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Configuration Management Planning - Before you Start
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Integrated CM/PM
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Agile CM
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Quality in your Configuration
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Metrics
- NEXT GENERATION CM: Building: Change Management First
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Where Are We ... Going
- The Business of Software Development
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Building Reliable Applications
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Seamlessly Integrated CM/ALM Suites
- Do Your CM/ALM Tools Help Secure Your Development Assets?
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Best Practices
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION: From Version Control to Product Management
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Agile Configuration Management
- CM: The Next Generation. Will Open-Source Dominate Development Management?
- CM: The Next Generation
- Using CM to Manage Application Deployment
- To Branch or Not To Branch (and Merge/Test)
- Workspace Management Front and Center
- Using Merge To Yank A Change
- Automating CM or Application Lifecycle Management
- The Journey Through Traceability to Process Control
- Requirements Driven Development: A Stream-Based WBS Approach
- Is It Upward Compatible?
- Testing and CM - A High Quality Marriage
- CM: The Nerve of Your Life Cycle Management
- Evaluating CM Tools
- The Road To Production Quality
- Configuration Management VS Change Management - Who's in Control
- Integrated Tools Enhance Distributed Development
- Multi-Site Servers - Get it Right
- CM Generations and a Vision for the Future
- Metrics and Process Maturity
- Making Incremental Integration Work for You
- Changes: The Crossroads Between Project CM and Product CM
- Moving Dependency Tracking Into The CM Process
- Taking the Complexity out of Release Management
- The Road to Quality
- Change Management is not Change Control
- Tool Choice as a Quality Issue
- Standards That Are Worth Following
- The Definition of "Done"
- The One Right Way to Achieve High-Quality Requirements:
- Audit Trails, Traceability - Because Sometimes Things Go Wrong (And no, they are not to place blame!
- Pragmatic Agile Development - The PAD Roadmap
- Is Your Metrics Database Write-Only?
- Assuring Quality: Beyond Testing & Reviews
- Software Quality -- Service Quality; What's the Difference?
- Does Senior Management Really Care About Quality?
- Quality is Not My Job
- The Risk of Regression
- Testing vs. Quality Assurance
- Agility and Quality
- High-Quality Processes
- Affordable Peer Reviews
- Establishing Unit Test Criteria
- Establishing Unit Test Criteria
- Partnership For Success
- A High-Quality Plan
- Consistent Quality Requires Consistent Processes
- Yes, You Can Review Your Own Work!
- Reducing Your Cost of Quality
- Behaviorally Speaking
- Behaviorally Speaking – 2010 – the Year Ahead
- Behaviorally Speaking – Year End Wrap-up – Lessons Learned and Goals Achieved
- Behaviorally Speaking – SCM Essentials for Small Teams
- Behaviorally Speaking – Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Behaviorally Speaking – Implementing Standards and Frameworks
- Behaviorally Speaking - CM Planning or Planning for CM
- Behaviorally Speaking – Release Management Essentials
- Behaviorally Speaking – Build and Deployment Essentials
- Behaviorally Speaking - Evaluating and Selecting the Right Tools
- Behaviorally Speaking: Product versus Project
- Lessons Learned - Worst Mistakes Ever Made!
- Behaviorally Speaking - Predictions for the Coming Year - 2009
- Behaviorally Speaking - Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool
- Behaviorally Speaking - Web 2.0 means CM 2.0
- Behaviorally Speaking - SCM Essentials for small teams
- Behaviorally Speaking - Release Management
- Managing Globally Distributed CM
- Behaviorally Speaking - IT governance and compliance - providing transparency to senior management
- Behaviorally Speaking - Standards - who needs them anyway?
- Behaviorally Speaking - My 7 Predictions for the coming year
- What does CM have to do with testing?
- Which best practice is best?
- Overcoming Resistance to Change in 2007
- When the build fails - the Business of Software Development
- Improving Application Quality and searching for what’s broken
- Behaviorally Speaking: Software Testing, Quality and CM
- Behaviorally Speaking: Assessing the Threat to the Production Environment
- Behaviorally Speaking: Distributed Development
- Behaviorally Speaking - The Future of CM!
- Behaviorally Speaking: So how do we really create "best" practices?
- Behaviorally Speaking: So How do we Really Create "Best" Practices?
- Behaviorally Speaking: SCM Patterns - are they really practical?
- Behaviorally Speaking: Business Level Change Management - SPI or die!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Business Level Change Management - SPI or Die!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Automating the Software Build and Release Management Process...
- Behaviorally Speaking: Merge Mania!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Build Management- A Critical Milestone in the Release Management Process!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Continuous Integration- Managing Chaos for Quality!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Systems Security - CM is the Missing Link!!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Project Management - What Does CM Have to do With it?
- Behaviorally Speaking: People, Process and Technology in Diverse Development Environments!
- Behaviorally speaking: Content Management -The argument against process!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Predictions for the Coming Year
- Behaviorally Speaking: Release Management: Why I love this job...
- Behaviorally Speaking: Managing Requirements - Do we practice what we preach?
- Behaviorally Speaking: Managing Requirements
- Behaviorally Speaking: Homeland Security "Is CM Really Relevant?"
- Behaviorally Speaking: Open Systems Analysis and Planning
- Behaviorally Speaking: The Effects of Application Development in the Global Enterprise
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Behaviorally Speaking: Defining the Software Development Life Cycle
- Agile CM Environments
- The Decline and Fall of Agile SCM (and the Rise of Lean)
- How does software development fit with your ITIL CMDB?
- Beware the IDEs: The Risks of Standardizing on IDEs
- Agile SCM - Review of 2008 and Predictions for 2009
- Agile SCM: Getting Started
- Defining Agile SCM: Past, Present & Future
- Breaking News; Build Still Important, but Deployment is King!
- Product and Project SCM
- An Agile Approach to Release Management
- Transparency improves Governance
- Agile SCM - Review of 2007 and Predictions for 2008
- Testing: It's not just for Agile SCM
- Agile SCM is Testing
- Lean Traceability: a smattering of strategies and solutions
- Lean Traceability with Trustworthy Transparency and Friction-Free Metrics
- Lean Branching
- Lean-based Metrics for Agile CM Environments
- The Renaissance Builder
- Agile SCM January 2007 - Looking Back to Move Forward
- A Christmas (Configuration) Carol (Abridged)
- Agile SCM and Requirements
- Agile SCM: Martial Arts Principles
- Breaking the Major Release Habit - An introduction to the Hyper Agile methodology
- Agile SCM - Relating Patterns to OOD, TBD and POB Principles
- Principles of Agile Version Control: From OOD to POB
- Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution
- Principles of Agile Version Control: From OOD to TBD
- Agile SCM January 2006 - Looking Ahead
- Evolving Beyond Version Control for Agile Development
- Feature-Driven Development - an Agile Alternative to Extreme Programming
- Situational Code Ownership: Dynamically Balancing Individual -vs- Collective Ownership
- Private Workspaces: Where Development Process Meets CM Process
- The Unchangeable Rules of Software Change (and what to do about it)
- Agile SCM 2005 - Reflecting back on the year in books
- Codeline Merging and Locking: Continuous Updates and Two-Phased Commits
- Branching and Merging - An Agile Perspective
- Tasks and Branching Patterns
- National Treasures of Agile Development
- Requirements Based Development- Yes Please! (But How?!)
- The Trouble with Tracing: Traceability Dissected
- Building For Success
- The Importance of Building Earnestly
- The Future of Agile CM
- The Illusion of Control
- The Agile Difference for SCM
- Agile Build Promotion: Navigating the Ocean of Promotion Notions
- Agile SCM: Build Management for an Agile Team
- Release Management - Making it Lean and Agile
- Learning from Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems Design
- Best Practices of Agile SCM
- Agile SCM - Patterns and Software Configuration Management
- Continuous Staging: Scaling Continuous Integration to Multiple Component Teams
- Applying Agile SCM to Databases
- Lessons Learned from Agile SCM
- Codeline Merging and Locking: Continuous Updates and Two-Phased Commits
- Agile SCM – Build Management for an Agile Team
- Continuous Integration - Just another buzz word?
- "Agile" Change Management - from first principles to best practices
- Agile SCM – It’s All Related
- The Need for Agility in SCM
- Agile Configuration Management Environments
- Agile Configuration Management Environments
- Implementation Excellence
- Cloudy with a Chance of Agility – CM Predictions for 2010
- Value of Configuration Management by Agile Professionals
- What is a CM Tool?
- Infrastructure - on Premises or in the Clouds?
- Culture, Methods, and Governance and Their Impact on CM
- Envelope Please - 2009 Predictions for Configuration Management
- Infrastructure Envisioning
- CM Planning for a Downturn in the Economy
- What is a CM Tool?
- Framework for Evaluating and Implementing Standards
- Infrastructure Refactoring
- Release Management, the Super Discipline
- Applying CM to Agile Teams
- How Release Management can help Agile Teams
- Bringing Business Value to IT Governance
- Envelope Please - 2008 Predictions in the CM/ALM Space
- Constructing a Best Practice
- 2007 Study of Myers-Briggs Types Relative to CM Professionals
- Allowing Project Management (PM) to Help Configuration Management (CM)
- Building a Meaningful Metric Mousetrap
- Envelope Please - 2007 CM Predictions
- Building Requirements Quality thru Coverage and Testability
- From Peer Review to Pair Programming
- Agile - It's Not the Wild West
- Assessing CM in the Development Process
- Assessing CM in the Development Process
- Approaching 2006 - CM Predictions
- CM Roles, Responsibilities, Skills, and Job Descriptions
- Antipatterns of a Private Workspace
- Levels of an SCM Product Evaluation and their Associated Risk
- ABCs of Requirements Engineering
- Building a Configuration Management (CM) Capability for Test
- Aircraft Carrier Called the "CM"
- Approaching Code Access for Distributed Development
- Announcing the 2005 CM Predictions
- Approaching Continuous Integration
- Application, Project, and Organization Level CM
- ABCs of BPD (Build, Package and Deploy)
- ABCs of Release Management
- Comparing the Relative Value of CM Practices
- Antipatterns of Change Control
- A Target Approach for who should Manage Change
- Approaching the Implementation of CM
- Approaching Parallel Development
- ABCs of a Branching and Merging Strategy
- A Study of Myers-Briggs Types Relative to CM Professionals
- A Study of Myers-Briggs Types Relative to CM Professionals
- The Dimensions of SCM Planning
- Going Global for 2003
- CM Journal
- FEATURED BOOK: Adapting Configuration Management to Agile Teams: Balancing Sustainability and Speed
- 2010 Trends in Project Management
- CM Journal - January 2010
- Small Teams in a Large Organization
- Database Compare and Synchronize Methods as a Part of the Software Release Management Process
- Electric Cloud’s Software Development Predictions for 2010
- TOP 5 TIPS: Getting a Jump on IT Spending for 2010
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and 15288: The Entry-Level Standards for Process Definition - Part 2
- CM Journal - December 2009
- CM Wrap-up for 2009 and Predictions for 2010
- Effective Open Source Software Adoption for Compliance with Legal Obligations
- The State of IT Change
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of SCM Essentials for Small Business
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 and 15288: The Entry-Level Standards for Process Definition - Part 1
- Small Teams and SCM
- Overcoming Resistance to Change by SCM
- Personality Matters - Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Experience Report: Engineering Change in a Large Organization
- Overcoming Resistance to Change
- Personality Matters – Implementing Standards and Frameworks
- Lean Six Sigma for Software Process Excellence
- Rationale for Standards
- Personality Matters – CM Planning or Planning for CM
- The Downward Spiral, or a Definition of a Mess
- Software Configuration Management Planning
- Lessons for Environmentally Friendly Configuration Management
- Personality Matters - Release Management Essentials
- Release Management
- Dicta RM
- Handling Build Binaries: A Case Study
- A pragmatic approach to Build and Deployment management
- Build and Deploy across multiple platforms
- Don't be a Fool, Choose the Right Tool
- People, Processes and Tools
- Process Tool Selection Guidelines
- Personality Matters – Taming the Wild Tools Selection Process
- Promoting Tools Within an Organization
- SCM Assessment
- Applying Software Configuration Management Methodology to Database Development
- Evaluating and Selecting CM Tools - A Perspective
- Options for Promoting and Controlling Changes in Risk Adverse Environments
- Keep The Change
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Change Control
- Welcoming Change
- Grokking Change
- Personality Matters - Change Control or Control of Changes
- Business-Level Change Management
- Antipatterns of Change Control
- Behaviorally Speaking - Change Control or Control of Changes
- ABCs of BPD (Build, Package and Deploy)
- Breaking News; Build Still Important, but Deployment is King!
- Business-Level Change Management
- Product versus Project - Where to Focus Your Efforts
- Big Picture or Little Picture – Where to Focus?
- Business Criticality and the Investment of CM
- The Lessons Learned – Worst Mistakes Ever Made
- Really, Really Bad Mistakes
- What's In A Name?
- Look Forward to Slow Change in 2009
- Predictions for the Coming Year - 2009
- Large Scale Continuous Integration
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Behaviorally Speaking - CM Planning
- CM Planning in Turbulent Times
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of the CM Plan
- Configuration Management Primer For Hiring Managers: Two Different Jobs Confused By The Same Title
- The CMP - An Alternate Approach
- Result-driven Testing: Start Adding Value to Your Organization
- Evaluating and Selecting CM Tools - A Perspective
- Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool
- HR Corner - Layoffs, credit crunch, bad economy and CM 2.0!
- Evolution of Life Cycles
- Behaviorally Speaking - Build and Deployment Management
- Continuous Integration and Enterprise Build Automation
- Using a Commercial Tool to Automate a Build and Deployment Process
- Finding meaning in your Build and Deploy Process
- Behaviorally Speaking - Project vs. Product SCM
- Neck Deep In the Big Muddy: Countering the Protective Collective Inertia of Failed IT Projects
- Product vs. Project SCM
- SCM Essentials For Small Teams
- Small Team Essentials: An SCM Perspective
- Can Configuration Management Defend You Against Information Asymmetry?
- "Agile" Means Disciplined SCM
- SCM Essentials for Small Teams
- Release Management
- Release Engineering Best Practices
- SCM Techniques #4 - Longacre Deployment Management & Project Baseline
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #4 - Schedule & Technological Diversity
- IT Governance and Compliance
- Is Your Development Going Global?
- Transparency and Accountability
- CM: THE NEXT GENERATION of Globally Distributed CM
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #3
- Automated Defect Prevention - Best Practices in Software Management
- Role of Management in an Iterative and Agile Software Development Environment
- Effective IT GRC Starts at the Top
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge #2
- SCM Techniques #3
- An Automated Infrastructure and Workflow for Process Improvement
- Test
- Process compliance sans documentation: You must be joking!!!!
- Standards – are they really needed?
- Dimensions of SCM Challenge
- SCM Techniques Number 2
- Standard Performance
- Four Lessons about Company Standards and Procedures from Build Management
- Personality Matters: do Standards threaten one's individualism and creativity?
- Standards: The What, Why and When
- Look Forward to More of the Same in 2008
- SCM Techniques: Kicking Off
- Getting your job search in gear
- Personality Matters: Predictions for 2008
- Metrics for SCM - analysis and experience.
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 3
- Metrics as a Method of Quality Testing
- CM and the new math: Teamwork when 1 plus 1 equals 3
- Process in an Agile World
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 2
- First Practice
- Build Quality In The Agile Methods are right!
- CM Tool Chains & Their Management
- Extending the SCM Value Chain by Unifying PPM and Configuration Management
- Making Waterfall (a Serial Lifecycle) Work For You, Part 1
- Metrics for SCM - a literature overview
- Getting Requirements Right the First Time: Four-Step Process for Effective Requirements Definition
- In a flat world there are many potholes
- Minimizing the Requirements GIGO Factor
- When to use Staged Integration
- Traceability and Auditability
- Using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for Process Improvement Program
- Traceability & Auditability: Do you really know what went into production?
- Consider Role Based Configuration Management
- Do the Right Thing!
- Build Forensics – linking production to development
- Rapid Response or Reactive CM - Responding to the Demands of Agile Development
- "You've Got to Have Rhythm, Setting the Tempo for Agile Development"
- ‘Oh Process!' - How does it matter?
- SCM metrics - a response.
- Quality in Configurations
- Managing Change Churn and Complexity
- Technical Introduction to Longacre Deployment Management™
- SOX and J-SOX Primer
- Improving Windows Availability
- Metric Mania
- Metrics for Fun and Profit
- Build Types Vs. Build Promotions
- Knowledge Empowerment for the Virtual Development Team
- Are You Still Building from the Tip Revisions?
- Building In Today’s CM World
- Application Lifecycle Management - A Look Back
- Application Lifecycle Management - A Look Back
- 2007: A Year of Open-Source Acceptance
- A Sensible Approach to Access Control in Configuration Management
- Osmosis
- The Business of Software Development
- Configuration Management in an SOA Environment
- Configuration Management and Simplicity - The Five "T" Approach to Keeping it Simple
- Requirements and Analysis
- Measure what Matters
- Building Reliable Applications
- Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Infrastructure Management Keeps Reliable Applications in the Race
- Integrated Tool Suites – Pros and Cons
- Taking Territory
- Managing Vendor Code Customizations with Stream-based SCM
- Improving Application Quality by Controlling Application Infrastructure
- Career Search Networking: Putting The Plan Into Action
- P-P Matrix for panoramic view of Process Compliance
- How to Improve Your Software Development Process Without Really Messing Things Up
- Empty page
- Using Policies to Effectively Integrate Configuration Management into the Development Process
- What do Enterprise Architecture principles require of Configuration Management?
- Version Control vs. Configuration Management
- Athletic Tape for Software Development
- Moving management to benefit from Configuration Management over Version Control
- Managing Dispersed Development Teams for Productivity
- Integrating IT For Productivity
- Motorcycle CM
- Open Source or Open Season?
- Open Source Strategies
- Addressing Concerns Of Performance Of Integration Builds
- Open Source, and other Dumb Ideas
- La mort du CM (and Other Predictions)
- Future of CM: Standards Is A Key To Transparent Change
- The Future of ALM and CM
- Reasons Why
- Avoiding Continuous Integration Build Breakage Patterns
- The "Right" SCM Process
- Experience Report: Using the Stable Receiving-Line to Support Parallel Development
- Experience Report: Using the Stable Receiving-Line to Support Parallel Development
- Open Source Development Community Drives Processes Benefiting Enterprise Applications
- Finding the Balance
- Capacity Planning For Software Build Management Servers
- Tool Purchase Afterbirth
- A Project Based Approach for Evaluating SCM Tools
- Gauging the Impact
- Practicing Requirements Based Development
- The Only Constant in This World is Change
- What to Say When you First Meet People and How to Follow up.
- Using Process-Enabled SCM Tools to Facilitate the Software Development Lifecycle
- A Bridge Too Far?
- Career Search Networking: Putting The Plan Into Action
- Ordinary Exceptions
- The Plan: A Career Search Strategy for the 21st Century - Part 2
- Distributed SCM
- Bills of Information and Bills of Material
- Mature in America?
- The Plan: A Career Search Strategy for the 21st Century
- Is There a Source Control "Silver Bullet"?
- Graphs for Change Requests
- Automation: Aspirin for WebSphere Migration Headaches
- Another Tool in Your Bag of Tricks (Part 3)
- The New Employment Economy
- The Role of Incremental Integration in a Parallel Development Environment
- Another Tool in Your Bag of Tricks (Part 2)
- A Trustworthy 3-Way Merge
- Another Tool in your Bag of Tricks (Part 1)
- Loving the Evil Twin
- SCM: An Important Focal Point
- The Nuts and Bolts of Release Builds
- Defining moments
- Release Management
- The Challenges Posed by Parallel Development on Release Management
- The Role of Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Standards and Best Practices
- Don't Let Your Controlled Build Process be Undermined by Sloppy Deployments (2)
- SCM Patterns: Building on Task-Level Commit
- Parallel Software Development is the New Normal
- How to integrate continuously evolving Product versions
- Build and Integrate Early and Often
- SCM Best Practices - Determining Which Practices Are Best for You
- Variation Management in Software Product Lines
- HR Corner: Beware of the Saboteur!
- HR Corner: Managing Your OffShore Staff...
- Golden Patterns and Symmetries in Concurrent Development
- Don't Let Your Controlled Build Process be Undermined by Sloppy Deployments (Part 1 of 2)
- Using SCM Patterns to Integrate SCM with Software Development
- Behaviorally Speaking: SCM Patterns - Are They Really Practical?
- HR Corner: Managing Your Off Shore Staff...
- Learner-Centric, a unique approach to training
- "Insanity is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Implementation Methodologies
- Strategic Weakness: SCM Implementation Risks
- Implementation Methodologies - When cultures clash!!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Implementation Methodologies - When Cultures Clash!!
- HR Corner: What is Cultural Sensitivity Anyway?
- Learn from your Vendor: Solution Selling
- HR Corner: Automating your job search!
- SCM Predictions: Are We There Yet?
- Determine Your Team's SCM Needs Before Automating!
- Integrate Software Configuration Management with Software Development
- HR Corner: Automating your Job Search!
- Logs Aren't Just For Your Holiday Fire
- Integrated Software Development - The ‘Good Parts' Version
- A Practical Approach for Selecting and Adopting an SCM Tool
- Behaviorally Speaking: What We've Learned - The Hard Way...
- HR Corner: What We've Learned About Job Hunting...
- Beyond Continuous Integration, A Holistic Approach to Build Management (Part 2 of 2)
- Dealing with the Aversion to Mergin'
- Merging Defect Fixes into the Development Codeline
- HR Corner: Games Headhunters Play...
- Beyond Continuous Integration, A Holistic Approach to Build Management (Part 1 of 2)
- Challenges and Strategies for Building and Deploying J2EE Applications
- Managing build variants with a better bootstrap
- The Job Market And Today's Growing Economy
- HR Corner: Staying OnShore When the Jobs are Headed OffShore!
- Working with Recruiters, Agents, Head Hunters...
- HR Corner: Oh no! I've Been Off-shored!
- Working with Recruiters, Agents, Head Hunters, Employment Agents, Contingency Search Firms and Retai
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- Back to CM Basics: Change Control
- HR Corner: Summertime the perfect time to crank up your job search...
- "Agile" Change Management - From First Principles to Best Practices
- Behaviorally Speaking: Lessons Learned- Getting Back to Basics!
- HR Corner: Summertime - The Perfect Time to Crank up a Job Search!
- Back to CM Basics: Change Control
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- CM Problems in a Complex Technology Environment
- Support for your Career Networking Needs
- Agile SCM: It's All Related
- HR Corner: Is this the Job Market or the Stock Market?
- CM Problems in a Complex Technology Environment
- An Easier Way to Make Job Search Networking Calls
- Integrating an SCM Tool with a Java Development Platform:
- From the Trenches - "Stop! Security! Where Do You Think You're Going"
- Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution
- HR Corner: Have You Been Left in the Dust?
- Executive Career Search After Downsizing
- Security As A Distributed Platforms SCM Change Control Mechanism
- HR Corner: Salary Survey - Are You Being Paid What You are Worth?
- Make Your Career Search a Project!
- Convergence of Software Project and Configuration Management
- Project Management: A Corporate Core Competency
- Planning Projects for Enterprise CM
- HR Corner: Sharing the nightmare of being fired
- Behaviorally Speaking: Agile Processes Can You Understand and Evaluate if They are Right for Your or
- Making SCM Agile
- Employers Need to Bring Hiring Criteria Into Information Age
- Process Based - Better than Agile for Enterprise
- Right-Sizing Software Configuration Management for Agile Projects
- HR Corner: Are you your own worst enemy?
- Content Data Management
- Taming a Wild Web Site
- You Have to Have a Plan, Man
- First you create a Universe
- Behaviorally Speaking: What Does CM Planning Have to do With Behavior?
- Human Resources Corner: Guerrilla Tactics for Job Hunters
- First you Create a Universe
- You have to have a plan, Man
- From the Trenches - "Stop! Security! Where Do You Think You're Going!"
- Creating an SCM Plan to Support Iterative Software Development
- Human Resources Corner: New Years Resolutions - is it time to quit?
- Short List of Predictions For 2003
- Human Resources Corner: New Years Resolutions-Is it Time to Quit?
- Ten Points for Improving the Testing Process
- Testing Requirements are met – What links Requirements to Tests?
- Using CM to Enhance the Testing Process
- Testing Techniques -From Requirements to Coding
- Testing Maturity Model (TMM) Certification
- Human Resources Corner: Commanding a higher salary in tough times!
- Behaviorally Speaking: Becoming a Test Manager. Is This a Career Change?
- Human Resources Corner: Commanding a Higher Salary in Tough Times!
- Testing Requirements are Met: What Links Requirements to Tests?
- Testing Techniques - From Requirements to Coding
- Using CM to Enhance the Testing Process
- Ten Points for Improving the Testing Process
- Testing Maturity Model (TMM) Certification
- Process Perspective: The earlier your Release Management works the more stable your Architecture
- From the Trenches: Release Management 101 - The Basics
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- You Shouldn't Have to be Sherlock Holmes to be a Release Manager
- Process Perspective: The Earlier Your Release Management Works the More Stable Your Architecture
- Human Resources Corner: Layoffs Are Coming-What Can You Do?
- From the Trenches: Release Management 101 - The Basics
- SCM Requirements Management Methodologies
- For better Requirements Management and CM, use eXtreme Programming
- Thinking Outside the Box: What if you managed Requirements
- Integrating a Requirements Management Tool into a Software CM Environment
- For Better Requirements Management and CM, Use eXtreme Programming
- Process Perspective: There is More to Requirements Than Just Use Cases and UML
- SCM Requirements Management Methodologies
- Delivering On Expectations: The Benefits of Integrated Requirements & Configuration Management
- Thinking Outside the Box: What if You Managed Requirements at the Object Level?
- Process Perspective: Keep All Re-use in mind in the Software Development Process
- Software Reuse: Ecology vs. Warehouse
- Web Services and Component-Based Development
- Code Reuse - Fact of Fiction?
- Process Perspective: Keep All Re-use in Mind When Establishing your Software Development Process
- Web Services and Component-Based Development
- Code Reuse - Fact of Fiction?
- Software Reuse: Ecology vs. Warehouse
- Object Reuse Within the Enterprise: A Report From the Field
- The Benefits of Using CM to Control Your Product's Configuration
- Process improvement alone is not the "Silver Bullet"
- Process Improvement Alone is not the "Silver Bullet"
- Behaviorally Speaking: When Your Boss Thinks CM is a Waste of Time!
- The Benefits of Using CM to Control Your Product's Configuration
- The Carrot Works Better than the Stick
- Make your own Best Practice: The ACME Process
- Make your own Best Practice: The ACME Process
- Avoid Role Name Confusion
- The Carrot Works Better than the Stick
- Ensuring Successful Application Development- Defining the Framework
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- Connecting Software Development to Business Objectives
- Integrating developer tools - Intuition vs. Reality
- Integrating Developer Tools - Intuition vs. Reality
- Ensuring Successful Application Development- Defining the Framework
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- The Benefits of Software Configuration Management Tool Integration
- Connecting Software Development to Business Objectives
- What Enterprise SCM is, and What Happens when it is Not
- Enterprises Need Higher Level Process Frameworks for Better Control
- What Enterprise SCM is, and What Happens When it is Not
- The "Right" SCM Process
- Tell Me More - Get Happy
- Tell Me More - Get Happy
- The Importance of a Directory Structure for the Development Process
- 2002 Trends for SCM
- Another articles
- Editors Note
- Media Center
- Video Spotlight
- Educational Videos
- The Crossroads - Podcast
- Implementing a configuration management database (CMDB) using virtualization and cloud computing
- Sharing information between CMDBs and other data management repositories
- Public Cloud Computing with Electric Cloud
- Requirements Definition and Management with David Hauck
- ThoughtWorks announces the release of Cruise - part 2
- ThoughtWorks announces the release of Cruise - part 1
- IBM Opens Service Management Center of Excellence in India
- Electric Cloud supports virtualized build and test automation through integration with VMWare
- Looking at Rational Build Forge Express Edition
- mValent Introduces mValent Integrity for Microsoft Servers
- Knowledge Centric ALM Comes full circle with DevSpec and Knowledgewise
- Next Generation Automated Software Testing
- Subversion in the Enterprise
- Quest software and mValent Join Forces to Deliver the Industry's First Integrated Configuration and
- OpenMake adds a little magic to the build prorcess with Mojo
- Offshore Development after a 7.1 Earthquake in Taiwan
- Stephen King Joins Catalyst Systems as CEO to help demystify build and release management
- Enterprise wide change governance
- Automated software build, package test and deployment made possible with Electric Commander
- Openmake supports Reuse for Application Lifecycle Management Workflow
- Automated Release and Deployment with Foglight Release Manager
- Metrics that Matter
- Database Change Management and testing with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals
- ALM goes Open Source with ALM Suite from HeadWest Software
- Integrated issue tracking and project planning enables Knowledge Centric ALM
- Laura Wingerd and Patrick Egan Discuss Perforce 2006.1
- Rally Software enables organizations to transition into agile development practices
- MKS Redefines Application Lifecycle Management Market with MKS Integrity 2006
- IBM Acquires BuildForge
- CM Today - Podcast
- CM Today - FXall Successfully Implements Kovair Global Life Cycle
- CM Today - Codice Software provides users with a new and improved release: Plastic SCM 2.5
- CM Today - Wireless AMBER Alerts™ Help Reunite Abducted Children with Their Families
- CM Today - IBM Opens Service Management Center of Excellence in India
- CM Today - September, 13 2007 - Includes Computerworld Announces Finalists
- CM Today - September, 04 2007 - Includes Microsoft loses vote on "open" document format
- CM Today - August, 27 2007 - Includes SmartSignal Chooses Borland to Automate Software Quality Tes
- CM Today - August, 23 2007 - Includes EMA Research Shows Service Level Management Acceptance on th
- CM Today - August, 22 2007 - Includes Opsware Process Automation System 7 Automates Workflows Acros
- CM Today - August, 21 2007 - Includes Viewtier Announces Automated Inter-Branch Merging Technology
- CM Today - August, 09 2007 - Includes Mercury Computer Systems to Provide Wildfire Monitoring
- CM Today - August, 08 2007 - Includes Electric Cloud and ReleaseTEAM Partner to Deliver Software
- CM Today - August, 01 2007 - Includes Developers Can Learn a lot From Salespeople
- CM Today - July, 31 2007 - Includes CollabNet Releases SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4
- CM Today - July, 26 2007 - Includes Green Hills Software Delivers Complete Product Suite for Cavium
- CM Today - July, 24 2007 - Includes HP Buying Opsware for $1.6B
- CM Today - July, 18 2007 - Includes MKS Integrity 2007 Leads ALM 2.0 Revolution
- CM Today - April, 11 2007 - Includes Opsware Application Release Management Solution is First
- CM Today - April, 06 2007 - Includes Application Lifecycle Management Conference 2007
- CM Today - March, 14 2007 - Includes Urbancode Releases AntHillPro3.2
- CM Today - March, 15 2007 - Includes Seapine Software Exhibits Powerful Code Quality Tools at 2007
- CM Today - March, 13 2007 - Includes The Agile Journal: Top-down Agile Adoption
- CM Today - March, 12 2007 - Includes Philips Medical Systems Leverages Open Source Principles
- CM Today - March, 08 2007 - Includes Synchronizing BOM Configurations Across Product Lifecycle Helps
- CM Today - March, 07 2007 - Includes Guiffy Software releases Guiffy SureMerge 8.0
- CM Today - March, 06 2007 - Includes Complete re-write of popular automated software testing
- CM Today - March, 05 2007 - Includes Quest, mValent join forces to deliver integrated configuration
- CM Today - March, 01 2007 - Includes AccuRev Announces Full Support for VMware and Solaris 10 Zones
- CM Today - February, 28 2007 - Includes Open-Xchange Deploys Largest Open Source Software Customer
- CM Today - February, 27 2007 - Includes Original Software Offers a Helping Hand to Manual Testers
- CM Today - February, 26 2007 - Includes Koders Releases Koders Enterprise Edition 1.2
- CM Today - February, 22 2007 - Includes TopCoder Announces TopCoder Open 2007 Sponsored by AOL
- CM Today - February, 21 2007 - Includes BMC Demonstrates Proven Results and Market Leadership
- CM Today - February, 20 2007 - Includes Parabuild 3.1 Released, Provides Parallel Multi-Platform Bui
- CM Today - February, 7 2007 - Includes UGS Launches Teamcenter Content Management Solution
- CM Today - February, 6 2007 - Includes Catalyst Systems Renamed OpenMake Software
- CM Today - February, 5 2007 - Includes QNX Multi-Core Tools Deliver Comprehensive Debug and Optimiza
- CM Today - February, 2 2007 - Includes Agile Heartbeat: How Agile Development puts fast, automatic
- CM Today - February, 1 2007 - Includes Offshore Muliti-site Development after a 7.1 Earthquake
- CM Today - January, 31 2007 - Includes McCabe Launches New Editions of Leading Software Quality
- CM Today - January, 30 2007 - Includes Verifichi Announces General Availability Launch of IT Auditor
- CM Today - January, 29 2007 - Includes Compuware details quality management product
- CM Today - January, 26 2007 - Includes What are the differences between enterprise, element
- CM Today - January, 25 2007 - Includes Clearswift Customers Pinpoint Business Need for Content
- CM Today - January, 24 2007 - Includes New Boundary Technologies Provides Automated Remediation for
- CM Today - January, 23 2007 - Includes OpenPages Introduces Information Technology Governance Soluti
- CM Today - January, 22 2007 - Includes Compuware Delivers Greater Application Development Productivi
- CM Today - January, 19 2007 - Includes VersionOne Recognized as #1 Agile Tool by Independent Survey
- CM Today - January, 18 2007 - Includes Open Source Leaders From Around the Globe to Meet at Second A
- CM Today - January, 17 2007 - Includes What is in store for CM and ALM for 2007
- CM Today - January, 16 2007 - Includes Catalyst Systems Appoints Software-Industry Visionary Stephen
- CM Today - January, 15 2007 - Includes Danube Announces Release of SCRUMWORKS PRO
- CM Today - January, 12 2007 - Includes Avaya Announces Tender Offer to Acquire Ubiquity Software
- CM Today - January, 11 2007 - Includes 2X ThinClientServer sends VISTA activation to the gallows
- CM Today - January, 10 2007 - Includes Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone
- CM Today - January, 09 2007 - Includes Perforce Software Receives Game Developer's Front Line Award
- CM Today - December, 22 2006
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- CM Today - December, 20 2006.
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- Webcasts
- Death to Manual Deployments!
- A New Kind of Engineering
- Managing Change in Rugged COTS Systems Development
- Keeping Control of Costs and Schedules When Requirements Change
- Three Simple Things that Will Help You Adopt Agile in Your Enterprise
- Customer speak: Teams, Insights, Results with Quality Driven Software
- Build & Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy
- Speeding Up Builds: A customer case study
- Why Scrum Isn't Enough for Agile Success
- Performance and Reliability Trade-Offs for Tuning ActiveMQ
- Best of Both Worlds: Enterprise ALM and Agile Parallel Development Practices
- Making the economic case for build-test-deploy automation and acceleration
- Enterprise Continuous Integration Maturity Model
- Subversion Best Practices: Maximizing Productivity
- Pragmatic Agile Testing – The Issues, Evidence and a Workable Approach
- Three classic pitfalls of embedded builds (and how to fix them)
- Pinpoint Process Cost Savings with Strategic QA
- Software Development in the New Economy: Cost Saving Tools and Practices
- Release Management Best Practices: Balancing Agility and Compliance
- Software Test Management Expanded
- How to Cut Development Costs with Process Automation and Tools Integration
- Modern Performance Testing Methods for Today’s Agile Enterprise:
- Achieve True Collaboration in Global Development
- Agile Build and Release Management Best Practices
- Keeping up with Business Demand in Tough Times
- Agile Testing Realities - Live Q&A on real-world Agile QA
- Recession Medicine - Best Practices for Automating & Optimizing Software Development
- Improving Software Quality through Continuous Integration
- Challenges and Characteristics of Enterprise Continuous Integration
- Automated Agile Functional Testing Practical Approaches to Quality that Get Results
- Test, Validate & Virtualize for Agile SOA
- Creating an Effective Agile Workplace for Distributed SCCM
- Using Virtual Machines to speed and improve the build-test-deploy processes
- Quality software = happy customers! Using software analysis to improve code quality
- The Big Subversion Payoff
- Shortening the Feedback Loop: A Customer Case Study of Continuous Integration
- Making Distributed Software Development Work
- Effectively managing change in your Subversion Environment
- Turn Subversion On! 5 Steps Towards a Successful Migration
- Going Agile - Improve your Agile experience with simple metrics.
- Pain Relievers for Continuous Integration and Agile Development
- Release Management Best and Next Practices
- What’s New in Subversion 1.5?
- Applying Open System Analysis to Right Size your Process, Tools and Overcome Resistance to Change
- Harness the power of virtualization for fast, self-service build-test-deploy processes
- Making Agile Stick In The Enterprise
- Embrace Change: Successfully manage change across the enterprise
- A Pragmatic Approach to Agile Development
- Moving From ClearCase MultiSite to Subversion
- Branching and Merging Strategies with Subversion 1.5
- Why all the Buzz about Builds?
- Activity and Asset Management – ‘moving SCCM from technical capability to enterprise process’
- The Art of Managing Geographically Distributed Development
- Eliminating the Build Barrier to Continuous Integration and Test
- Managing Software Production with Geographically Distributed Teams
- Tooling in an Agile Environment and the Acorn Case Study
- Implementing Agile at a Team Level – Disciplines of Flow from Rhythm and Test to Training and Tools
- Five Levels of Agile Planning
- Subversion for Enterprise Distributed Teams: Why, When and How?
- Globally Distributed Development Using Subversion
- The Fung Shui Toolkit for Application Development – finding the balance between Agile Methodologies
- Leverage Agile Practices to Improve the Success of Your Complex Development Projects
- Managing Software Production with Geographically Distributed Teams
- Avoid Application Management Gaps with ITIL Release Management Best Practices and Foglight Release
- Right-sizing Processes and Maximizing Productivity
- Subversion in the Enterprise
- Accelerating Software Delivery with Integrated Change and Release Management
- A New Approach to Application Release Management
- Geographically Distributed Development: How to Keep Control Across the Globe
- Knowledge-centric Application Lifecycle Management – what you need to know
- 12 Tasty ‘Make’ Recipes, Part IV
- 12 Tasty ‘Make’ Recipes, Part III
- Achieving Speed & Control for Sustainable Compliance
- 12 Tasty Make Recipes; Part II
- Take Control of Your Dependencies
- 12 Tasty Make Recipes; Part I
- The Role of Feedback in an Agile Application Lifecyle
- Achieving Your Build & Release Managment Resolutions
- Muli-Target, Multi-Platform Make: Building Everything from one Makefile
- Practicing Requirments Based Devlopment
- Compliance: Your Key to the Executive Washroom
- Navigating the Dependency Managment Jungle
- An Analyst Perpective; the ABC's of Distrubted ALM
- Achieving Software Build and Deployment Excellence in Perforce Environment
- Securing Development Assets through Source Code Management
- Achieving Software Build and Deployment Excellence
- Eliminate Development Bottlenecks with Lightning Fast Builds
- Practical Approaches to Agile Development
- Practical Approaches to Agile Development with ClearCase
- Whitepapers
- IT Compliance Whitepapers
- Requirements Whitepapers
- Software Quality Whitepapers
- Avoiding the Pitfalls of Automated Testing
- Automated Testing Best Practices
- All-pairs Testing and TestTrack TCM
- Test Case Management Best Practices
- Key Insights and Strategic Actions for Improving Software Quality
- Five Issues that Prevent Software Quality
- QRA Fast Facts: Lack of Test Case Management Hinders Quality
- Increase Customer Satisfaction with High Quality Software Best Practices
- Test Automation Provides Significant Time Savings
- Lack of Test Case Management Hinders Quality
- Integrating SCM into Your Business with Surround SCM
- Tooling Up For Agile Development
- Combining Quality and Productivity for a Competitive Advantage
- Automated Testing Best Practices
- Testing with Brains
- Taming the Mysterons
- The Future of Software Configuration Management: A Sharper Focus on Small Changes
- Software Test Management Tools Defined
- Better Concurrent Development through Branching and Surround SCM
- All-pairs Testing and TestTrack TCM
- The Value of Quality
- Requirements-Based Testing: Collaboration Through Traceability
- Strategic Quality Assurance - Steps to Effective Software
- IBM Rational Automation Framework for Websphere (RAFW)
- Introducing the Agile Desktop
- Meister – Going Beyond Maven
- Forrester Research: Optimizing Globally Distributed Software Development Using Subversion
- An Integrated Approach to Requirements and Quality Management
- Continuous Testing With ElectricCommander
- Agile CMMI at a Large Investment Bank
- Realize Effective Distributed Development Via a Virtual Software Factory
- Build & Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy
- Build Agile Iteration Plans Your Team Can Commit To!
- Integral Solutions for Batch Processes
- Finding ROI in Build Automation
- Change & Configuration Management for Today’s A&D Organizations
- Enterprise Change Management—An Executive Perspective
- Independent Analyst Report: Modernize Requirements Practices
- The Agile Checklist: Get The Rhythm
- Four Enterprise Agile Best Practices from the Trenches
- Enterprise ALM: Take the Pain Out of Compliance
- Lower Development Costs Without Staff Reductions or Outsourcing
- Smart Compiles for Fast Continuous Integration Builds
- Enterprise Continuous Integration Maturity Model
- Domain Specific Languages For Functional Testing
- 2009 Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management
- Agile Not Fragile - Scaling Agile Across the Enterprise
- 11 Best Practices for Lightweight Peer Code Review
- Best Practices to Unify Development Process Management
- Demystifying Cloud-Based Testing and the Related Benefits
- Leverage Geographically Distributed Development
- Implementing Parallel Software Development
- An Agile Approach to Project Management - Improve PMO Effectiveness
- Build Automation - the Next Wave in Agile Methods
- Best Practices in SCM
- Connecting Dispersed Teams and SCM Tools
- Application Release Management: The Path to Production
- ALM software solutions for green IT.
- Scaling Continuous Integration To Large and Distributed Teams
- Minimize IT Outsourcing Risk with Collaborative Quality
- The Eight Stages of an Agile Approach That Works
- Collaboration in Global Development
- Virtualization for Enterprise Application Development
- Critical Skills You Need to be Marketable & Indispensable in 2009
- Collaborative Software Development on Demand
- Case Study: A Roadmap for choosing ALM tools
- Code Maintenance Best Practices -- 4 Essential Skills for Lean Times
- Build & Release Management: Understanding the Costs of Doing It Yourself
- A Case Study in Enterprise Transformation
- Leverage agile methods to improve SOA implementation
- Achieving Agile SOA Across the Lifecycle with iTKO LISA
- The Enterprise Change Process
- Upgrading from Serena Builder to OpenMake Meister
- Dimensions Is Fast! How Fast? Try 60 Times Faster!
- Using Software to Support Agile Software Development
- The 4 Hidden Costs of Code Maintenance
- Agile Tools: The good, the bad, the ugly
- Source Code Analysis in an Agile World
- SCM Best Practices for Continuous Integration
- Challenges & Characteristics of Enterprise Continuous Integration
- Taming Software Quality Complexity with Virtual Lab Automation
- The “3 C's” of SOA Testing
- Take the Maturity of Your Systems and Software Development Process to the Next Level with ALM
- Requirements Definition and Management: The Key to Business Success.
- Quality-Centric Application Lifecycle Management in a Down Economy
- QRA Fast Facts: Test Automation Provides Significant Time Savings
- Five CIO Challenges Addressed by Better Change Management
- Evaluation Guide: Is Your SCM Tool Ready for Agile?
- Develop Globally, Manage Centrally
- Lean Development Governance
- Driving Business Success with Software Reuse
- Best Practices in SCM
- CI Server Evaluation Guide
- Industry Expert Insights: Software Configuration Management Best Practices
- Build and Release Management for Effective Software Delivery
- Drawing the Line: Continuous Integration and Build Management
- Butler Group Technology Audit – Synergy and Change
- Build and Release Management Understanding The Costs of Doing it Yourself
- From Ad Hoc to Optimized: Automating Development Processes
- Strategic QA: Steps to Effective Software Quality Assurance
- Let Automated Deployment Do the Work for You
- Managing Change for Competitive Advantage
- Yphise Report: Telelogic Synergy Ranks no1
- Agile Development: Five Steps to Continuous Integration
- Driving Successful Agile Development
- 5 Levels of Agile Planning
- The Power of Integrated & Automated SCCM
- Built-In Identity Access Management for Software Development
- Roundtrip Traceability: Enhancing Quality in the Software Development Lifecycle
- It’s All About Process
- Evaluating a CM System for Agile Development
- Improve test productivity and product quality through test management
- Implementing a Quality Initiative at Cisco Systems
- News & Events
- Events Calendar
- Burton Group Catalyst Conference
- Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
- 2009 IEEE Congress on Services SERVICES 2009
- Next Generation Data Center Expo
- VMworld 2009
- Best Practices 2009 Conference
- Licensed ZapThink Architect LZA SOA Training Boot Camp: DC
- 4G World
- Configuration Management Trends Conference CMPIC
- The Business Process Management Conference Europe
- SOA Governance Training & Certification: DC Second Session
- Westin Hotel - Westminster, CO
- Gartner Business Process Management Summit
- 2009 ALM Expo
- Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009
- OOPSLA 2009
- Webcast: Keeping Control of Costs and Schedules When Requirements Change
- Webcast: Managing Change in Rugged COTS Systems Development
- Webcast: A New Kind of Engineering
- 2010 for the Chicago Rational User's Group (CRUG)
- Southern California Linux Expo
- CM Today Podcast
- CM Today - FXall Successfully Implements Kovair Global Life Cycle
- CM Today - Codice Software provides users with a new and improved release: Plastic SCM 2.5
- CM Today - Wireless AMBER Alerts™ Help Reunite Abducted Children with Their Families
- CM Today - IBM Opens Service Management Center of Excellence in India
- CM Today - September, 13 2007 - Includes Computerworld Announces Finalists
- CM Today - September, 04 2007 - Includes Microsoft loses vote on "open" document format
- CM Today - August, 27 2007 - Includes SmartSignal Chooses Borland to Automate Software Quality Tes
- CM Today - August, 23 2007 - Includes EMA Research Shows Service Level Management Acceptance on th
- CM Today - August, 22 2007 - Includes Opsware Process Automation System 7 Automates Workflows Acros
- CM Today - August, 21 2007 - Includes Viewtier Announces Automated Inter-Branch Merging Technology
- CM Today - August, 09 2007 - Includes Mercury Computer Systems to Provide Wildfire Monitoring
- CM Today - August, 08 2007 - Includes Electric Cloud and ReleaseTEAM Partner to Deliver Software
- CM Today - August, 01 2007 - Includes Developers Can Learn a lot From Salespeople
- CM Today - July, 31 2007 - Includes CollabNet Releases SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.4
- CM Today - July, 26 2007 - Includes Green Hills Software Delivers Complete Product Suite for Cavium
- CM Today - July, 24 2007 - Includes HP Buying Opsware for $1.6B
- CM Today - July, 18 2007 - Includes MKS Integrity 2007 Leads ALM 2.0 Revolution
- CM Today - April, 11 2007 - Includes Opsware Application Release Management Solution is First
- CM Today - April, 06 2007 - Includes Application Lifecycle Management Conference 2007
- CM Today - March, 14 2007 - Includes Urbancode Releases AntHillPro3.2
- CM Today - March, 15 2007 - Includes Seapine Software Exhibits Powerful Code Quality Tools at 2007
- CM Today - March, 13 2007 - Includes The Agile Journal: Top-down Agile Adoption
- CM Today - March, 12 2007 - Includes Philips Medical Systems Leverages Open Source Principles
- CM Today - March, 08 2007 - Includes Synchronizing BOM Configurations Across Product Lifecycle Helps
- CM Today - March, 07 2007 - Includes Guiffy Software releases Guiffy SureMerge 8.0
- CM Today - March, 06 2007 - Includes Complete re-write of popular automated software testing
- CM Today - March, 05 2007 - Includes Quest, mValent join forces to deliver integrated configuration
- CM Today - March, 01 2007 - Includes AccuRev Announces Full Support for VMware and Solaris 10 Zones
- CM Today - February, 28 2007 - Includes Open-Xchange Deploys Largest Open Source Software Customer
- CM Today - February, 27 2007 - Includes Original Software Offers a Helping Hand to Manual Testers
- CM Today - February, 26 2007 - Includes Koders Releases Koders Enterprise Edition 1.2
- CM Today - February, 22 2007 - Includes TopCoder Announces TopCoder Open 2007 Sponsored by AOL
- CM Today - February, 21 2007 - Includes BMC Demonstrates Proven Results and Market Leadership
- CM Today - February, 20 2007 - Includes Parabuild 3.1 Released, Provides
- Events Calendar