2. Choosing the right SCM strategy
“Strategy: A careful plan or method; the art of devising or employing plans or stratagems towards goals”
—Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
As we showed in Chapter 1, “The quest for software lifecycle management” on page 3, choosing any SCM strategy is not enough when deploying an SCM-solution, but selecting the right strategy is what matters.
We have to consider things like what data that is processed, who does what, where everything is, and why everything is done—that is, the who, what, why, when, where, and how of the process needed to achieve our goals.
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