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Evaluating and Selecting a CM tool - November 2008
 The first CM tools that I worked with (and loved deeply) are no longer on
the market. Actually, the whole platform is now obsolete, but I still cherish
those early lessons learned. This month our talented writers give you a headstart on how to select the right CM tools for your needs and, of
course, successful implementation!
Mario Moreira explains what a CM tool really is and Steve Easterbrook
leads us on with his view of the journey to selecting the right CM tools while
Ben Weatherall gives us a delightfully zany chat with his friends about his
approach to CM tool selection. Robert Cowan, Brad Appleton and Steve Berzuk
get us thinking about setting up our first code repository in Agile SCM:
Getting Started and then Joe Farah takes us on the Next Generation of
selecting a CM/ALM tool Alan Koch talks about tool choice as a quality issue
and of course, I weigh in with my own thoughts on the essential people
issues involved with successfully selecting the right CM for your
project. CM tools selection is a critical skill for any CM expert.
You've come to the right place for the information that you need for
success!
Bob Aiello
Editor in Chief
CM Crossroads
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Behaviorally Speaking - Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool
Evaluating and
Selecting any technology tool is truly dropping me off at a combination
candy/toy store with my beloved grandfather nearby, who never seemed to tire of
delighting me with his holiday presents. I love removing the shrink wrap
(especially when there are some nice thick admin manuals for me to devour). All
fun aside, selecting the right CM tool could make the difference between your
project being a success or failure. It's also important to note that you might
pick the perfect...
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CM: THE NEXT GENERATION - Evaluating and Selecting a CM/ALM Tool
Selecting a CM/ALM tool is no small task these days. The CM/ALM tool is no
longer just another developer tool, such as a compiler or IDE environment.
Instead, it forms the backbone of a development organization. It will strongly
influence an organization's ability to measure and control quality, meet
schedules, comply to requirements and assess development costs. It will also be
the central focus for all development processes. It will support a key knowledge
base, and will be viewed ...
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Evaluating and Selecting a CM Tool
Selecting tools for
evaluation and then performing the actual evaluation process is a time
consuming task. One that should rarely occur in a vacuum. In order to document
a generic framework for performing evaluations, I decided I needed to bounce
ideas off of someone; so once again, it was time to visit with the
Schizophrenic Paranoid. Discussing topics with such an entity always yields
insight and keeps one focused on what is important. Well, at least most of the
time. The conversation w...
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 | Evaluating and Selecting CM Tools - A Perspective
Why Automated
tools?
Automated tools are essential for effective and
efficient configuration management. Tools can automate many aspects of the
change management process and deliver a real time platform for managing
baseline information. Tools can also provide
reports and metrics that are necessary for continuous improvement efforts. Many
tools also provide document control and other essential functionality.
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 | Agile SCM: Getting Started
A prerequisites to any of the Agile SCM Practices, such as
Integration Builds Private Build, Unit Tests, and the like is being able to set
up a developer’s Private Workspace with the right code and tools so that you
can code, build and test.
In this installment we discuss the important, and
oft-overlooked process of creating a development workspace, which is to say,
getting started.
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 | What is a CM Tool?
Does
the title of this article sound silly? I
mean, doesn’t everyone know what a Configuration Management (CM) tool is? Isn’t a Configuration Management CM tool something
that provides version control functionality?
Well, the short answer is yes but only in its most simplistic form. CM as a discipline goes well beyond simple
version control. It is important to look
beyond what vendors define as classic CM tools and consider CM in terms of the
full...
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 | Tool Choice as a Quality Issue
We need to choose an SCM tool. It will mean some work to make the choice, and then more work to put it into practice. But at least we don’t have to worry about it from a quality perspective. After all, the tools we choose to employ don’t affect the quality of the software we produce.
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