"If they would just stop changing their minds!" Untold numbers of programmer’s rants have begun with that lament (including a few of my own). Of course, we know that will never happen. Change is a fact that we must live with and to avoid change is to avoid reality. The Agile method goes beyond merely acknowledging this reality. It teaches us how to capitalize on the changes that will inevitably come along to produce a better result than the one we planned for in the first place. We don't just accept change and we don't control it. Instead, we learn how to welcome change!

Change occurs everywhere, and every day - especially in the software world. Knowing how to navigate that change, and maximizing it's acceptance across the board is crucial for development teams to reach their goals. Learn how this can be accomplished in processes that are easy to adopt.

By incorporating SCM standards across database change management, developers gain security, and ease that was previously hard to come by. Tight deadlines are able to be met whether dealing with minor changes, or full-scale deployment and releases.

Tools selection should really be the most objective and straightforward task that any technology professional could be asked to work on. After all, selecting a hammer is a basic task that depends on objective criteria such as the size of the nail that you are pounding into a wall. In technology, tools selection involves a lot more group dynamics than you might expect, and it is very possible that personality issues within the team evaluating the tools could cause you to make some costly mistakes. This article discusses what you need to know to make sure that you can successfully “tame your wild tools selection process” and yield the best results for your organization.