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What Is a “Best” Practice? What's good for the goose isn't always good for the gander. This is especially true when it comes to labeling "best practices." Joe Townsend has a few things to keep in mind when determining "best," "better," and "good" practices in your organization. |
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Leap IT: Lean Accelerators for Productivity improvement in IT “Expectations from IT just keep increasing every single day “– this is a point of view echoed by several CIOs across the organizations all over the globe. Newer developments in IT like Social Networking, Green IT, Virtualization, and Business analytics are changing the way businesses are run. |
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CM as Communication and Coordination Enabler This article includes some of the material that Geoff Thorpe presented at a BCS CMSG event where he discussed the control of applications using change management, release management, |
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In Search of the Elusive "Best Practice" A friend and fellow consultant has been known to react quite strongly to the phrase "best practice". Anyone who is unlucky enough to have James within earshot when they utter that phrase is likely to receive a dressing down for using it. "There is no such thing as best practice!" he will inform them in his not-so gentle manner. "There are only good practices that are appropriate under certain circumstances!"
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Alan S. Koch
March 15, 2010 |
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Quantifying Risk: The Purpose of Testing Testing is such an integral part of our software projects that we often don't stop to think about why we do it. We must do it. What else is there to know? It is obvious that software that has not been tested is unready for deployment. As painful experience has taught us, testing does not guarantee that the software is fit to deploy. Even rigorously tested software may still have hidden fatal flaws. |
Alan S. Koch
February 16, 2010 |
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The Tools, Processes, and Infrastructure of ALM Enterprise CM is not a simple feature, process, or edict. It is the establishment of tools, processes, and infrastructure so that management can confidently reap the benefits of CM and ALM across the enterprise. |
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Database Compare and Synchronize Methods as a Part of the Software Release Management Process By testing migration processes between environments, bugs are able to be found earlier, and before the migration to production. Using automatic packages, and well-thought out staging areas, migration can be a less painful, and more informative process than it may have been for you in the past. |
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Small Teams in a Large Organization Ben Weatherall writes that the need to tailor existing SCM tools should be kept to a minimum and the solutions be implemented is such a way as to be reused in the future. Additional SCM requirements for these teams over and above those already in place are generally modest. |
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Three Wishes for Software Configuration Management (SCM) Joe Farah writes of three Christmas wishes he has for the world of software configuration management (SCM). If we do these key things properly, we won't just see an jump in SCM maturity. We'll see a fire that spreads the wealth. |
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The Decline and Fall of Agile SCM—and the Rise of Lean SCM There are definite signs of Agile methods (with a capital A) may be losing mind share or, at the very least, suffering from a certain amount of perhaps over-hype or over familiarity. Or maybe it is just the rise in cases of AFS (Agile Fatigue Syndrome). For some, agile is giving away to the rise of lean software development. Where will it end? |
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