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Release Management and Deployment Essentials Business requirements often dictate how changes in release management are addressed. But by following some essential practices and core beliefs, database deployment does not have to result in the headaches once caused. |
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Continuous Integration and the Automated Database Update Process Developers must have good feedback to ensure productivity. Most shops have a continuous integration (CI) build process that allows the developer to quickly know if a build failed, and some shops have an automatic deploy of the CI build to provide website feedback. Lance Lyons writes about an approach to automating the update of databases in a CI environment. |
Lance Lyons
July 14, 2011 |
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Communication and Cooperation When Implementing CM and ALM If you have been involved with any technology-related efforts, then you will instantly recognize how often teams struggle with effective collaboration, communication, and cooperation. This article covers several key “people” issues that you should consider when implementing CM and ALM strategies. |
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Simulation Games: A Way to Improve Communication in the Team One of the hardest daily tasks developers, QA, ScrumMasters, and product owners encounter is effective communication with others. Sound implausible? According to many articles, research, and personal observations, the main cause of project failure is not technology or hardware, but inefficient communication stemming from lack of effective communication between team members, incomplete business analysis, imprecise requirements, and vaguely formulated business objectives. |
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How to Use ALM for a Comprehensive Software and Systems Development Lifecycle Bob Aiello explains that ALM and ITIL provide considerable guidance that can help you implement a comprehensive software and systems development lifecycle. Your organization would benefit from implementing these best practices, especially if you need to meet regulatory requirements or perhaps pass an internal audit once in a while. |
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Going Greener with Configuration and Supplier Management In this age of "going green," it helps to know how to get started. These selection criteria can help data centers become more energy efficient through the course of normal hardware and software replacement. |
Karen Ferris
June 8, 2011 |
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The Top Five Reasons for Orchestrated IT Service Management Service management systems are IT’s online face to the business. Although employees rely on enterprise applications and personal productivity tools to get their jobs done, they turn to the IT service system for fulfillment when they run into problems. This article defines the top five reasons for choosing orchestrated ITSM systems, then compares and contrasts these systems to the other classes of ITSM systems in use today. |
David Hurwitz
June 8, 2011 |
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Factor in Coworkers' Personalities When Implementing ITIL/ITSM There are many people who do not like structure. Application lifecycle management (ALM), and, even more so, IT infrastructure library (ITIL) as a framework, touch some people's buttons as being just too much structure. In this article, Leslie Sachs examines the personality factors that you need to be aware of when implementing ALM and ITIL/IT service management (ITSM). |
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Ten Capabilities that ALM Tools Must Support Joe Farah writes that next generation ALM tools must not interfere with development by adding overhead. Instead, they must help to increase efficiencies and productivity of all roles as part of the agile backbone. Here is a list of capabilities that ALM tools must support in an increasingly agile world. |
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Build Capability Basics A basic build capability is founded on two key fundamentals: the ability to reproduce the build and the ability to automate the build process. Without these two fundamentals, you're fighting an uphill battle. Reproduction of the build implies that you have a CM system able to capture the build definition. Automation helps to ensure that no manual errors can play into the production, but this is just the beginning. These build basics will help set you on the right path for high-quality changes. |
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