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Does Size Matter for Application Lifecycle Management? Joe Farah attempts to answer whether or not size matters for application lifecycle management. The next generation of CM and ALM processes and tools change the game for small teams. It's no longer a question of what parts of the ALM process we cut out or ignore. Instead, it's how can I compete against a Goliath competitor.
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Essentials for Small Team Dynamics in CM Practices Personality matters a great deal when you need to be able to help a small team implement essential software configuration management practices. Small teams have dynamics just like any other team and you need to know what it takes to help your team achieve success. SCRUMs may have a maximum size of nine members, but you will likely find yourself in organizations where successful teams grow and you have to deal with the dynamics implicit in a successful team that now has new requirements for communicating and working together successfully. In this column, we will take a look at some of the essentials required for small teams.
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SCM Essentials for Small Teams: Less Can Be More There are several questions you have to ask and answer when implementing software configuration management (SCM) for small teams: Is the minimalist approach of SCM congruent with my duties to implement sound SCM? Is there a difference between implementing SCM on small versus large teams? Can I pick and choose the concepts of SCM to implement?
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Help Migration from SourceSafe to Dimensions I am about to migrate a software library from Visual SourceSafe to Dimensions 2009R1, are there any problems I should be aware of?
I assume the best idea is to put the migrated VSS into its own product. I ask this because I also have a migration of Serena ChangeMan into the same database and I may be requested to put both migrations into the same product.
Thanks,
Stephen.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Distributed vs Centralised SCM? I'd be interested in feedback from others on this subject, and particularly comparing and contrasting the use of distributed tools such as git and mercurial (and others) vs their more centralised brethren, be they open source (subversion) or commercial.
The requirements for developing something like Linux are certainly different to those for many commercial organisations IMO.
Thoughts?
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Need advice for shifting rational server to new domain my company was recently aquried by another company. we moved all of our servers over as is. everything is working fine. now they want to add us to a new windows domain as well us upgrade us from cc 7.1.1 to 7.1.2.
is it as simple as throwing out the current views and running fix_prot on the vobs?
or is there more to it then that?
thanks for your time
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When Large Teams Shrink Ben Weatherall addresses what happens when large teams shrink to the extent that they are considered small. There are several situations where this commonly happens—for example, when a team has been raided by other teams, when the majority of the work has been accomplished and a large team is no longer needed, or when the corporate situation is such that downsizing occurs.
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Is software configuration management the build system's job? The other day I came across 2 people on the same day who told me that they believe that part of the build system's job is to do software configuration management. :blink:
Having spent nearly all of my professional life in SCM this came as surprise to me because I've tried to avoid using the build system to manage software configurations, and whenever I've come across these build systems these were highly complex solutions with lots of gotchas and usually created in part from a legacy environment that used 'simple' version control tools.
Both of these people happened to be Subversion advocates and it got me wondering whether this has anything to do with the fact that Subversion was built as a replacement for CVS and doesn't have the notion of configurations.
What do you say? Is Software Configuration Management the build system's job? Or is it a shared responsibility between the SCM/VC system and the build system? |
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How do we put our DB Stored Procs into CVS? We are planning to put all the DataBase Stored Procs in to CVS to maintain versions for those SP's,
Can anyone please let me know how can i start with this,
If you have any documetns or links please provide.
Regards,
Pavan Gattu.
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Beyond Configuration Management into Application Lifecycle Management—Just a Change of Focus? CM is an important driver for development productivity, yet remains often overlooked when discussing how the development lifecycle could be optimized. Often, this happens because of the perceived complexity of parallel strategies and additional overhead. However, today’s CM tools offer powerful capabilities that allow users to tap into that potential.
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