Better software configuration management means better business
“Software configuration management is the unsung hero of software development”
—Tom Milligan[2]
[2] Tom Milligan is a consultant at IBM Rational Software.
To manage our software assets, we need the right process and the right tools. Just like you need an order entry system to handle your customer orders, or a general ledger system to handle the financial transactions and bookkeeping of your company, you need a software configuration management (SCM) tool and process to handle your software assets.
Control— Is the goal of SCM, with dominion over:
Source file versions
Configuration and delivery
Process management
Problem tracking
Version control— Versioning is the making of copies of ...
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