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Some of the discussion with my co-authors on our May 2008 CM Journal article on Agile Release Management spurred some additional thoughts by me that I hope to refine and work into a subsequent article later this year. Release Management is about so much...
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I started reading through the book Implementing ITIL Configuration Management , by Larry Klosterboer. I'm really not what I'd consider an expert on ITIL nor IT Service Management , but I've had more than my fair share of exposure to it and...
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Peter Eeles and I must be subconsciously on the same page. Because at the same time I was blogging about Software Architecture Views and Perspectives and Software Architecture Quality Attributes and their direct applicability to SCM/ALM solution architecture...
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A colleague of mine had a question for me about Distributed Versions Control Systems (or DVCS). There are a growing number of such systems these days: Mercurial , Bazaar , git , svk , BitKeeper , Gnu Arch , darcs , Monotone , Codeville , Arx , just to...
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The November 2007 issue of the CM Journal was devoted to the theme of " What Best Practice is Best? " Joe Farah's article on The Top 10 SCM Best Practices was quite possibly the best article on SCM best practices that I've come across...
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Almost a year ago I posted an entry on the " 5 C's of Agile SCM Codelines ". This time I'm posting on the 5 R's of Agile SCM Baselines . I think these are as follows (note that most of these are not unique to Agile/Lean): Repeatable...
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The (hopefully) provocative title of today's blog-entry is inspired by Phil Armour's essay " Software is Not a Product! ", which is one of many profoundly insightful essay's from his book The Laws of Software Process . Armour maintains...
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The April issue of the CM Journal , and there is a FANTASTIC article in it by Austin Hastings about his Longacre Deployment Management strategy for dealing with database CM. It's long, but well worth the read for the insight into a new way of thinking...
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My paper in this month's issue of The CM Journal is about Lean-based Metrics for Agile CM Environments . This month we take an "Agile" slant on metrics for CM, including the CM process itself. Agility is supposed to be people-centric and...
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The folks over at SmartBear software have written a nice little book entitled The Best Kept Secrets of Code Reviews . It's free if you go over to their webpage and ask for it (you have to fill out a registration form, and it takes a few weeks to arrive...
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Charles Betz' book Architecture and Patterns for IT Service Management, Resource Planning, and Governance: Making Shoes for the Cobbler's Children really ought to be required reading for anyone that fancies themselves a "CM professional"...
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Every January at CMCrossroads.com the CM Journal focuses on CM predictions for the coming year. My contribution for this year is Agile SCM January 2007 - Looking Back to Move Forward where I reflect on the previous two years' predictions and update...
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Happy new year to all! I thought this would be appropriate for my first blog-entry in 2007 ... Here are my top 10 blog-entries of 2006. This is based not on hit-counts, but rather on reference counts (number of mentions in other blog-posts, forums, articles...
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In my last blog-entry I wondered if the interface segregation principle (ISP) translated into something about baselines/configuration, or codelines, or workspaces, or build-management. Then I asked if it might possibly relate to all them, Here's a...
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