3. Why ClearCase and ClearQuest

“The most important tools the team can own are a versioning and configuration management system and a printing whiteboard”

—Alistair Cockburn[1]

[1] Alistair Cockburn is one of the leading advocates of the Agile movement, and is recognized by some as the king of use cases.

In the previous chapter we showed you that Better software configuration management means better business. In this chapter we show you the benefits of using IBM’s Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest products as your SCM tools of choice.

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