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Configuration
Management Hanscom
Configuration
Management Hanscom refers to the Original work toward Software
Configuration management done at Hanscom AFB.
Configuration
Management Hanscom – solving issues
It has become apparent
that solving the CM needs for large organizations with long-lived
software applications is complex. Many organizations spend most of
their time working with existing applications then changing and
enhancing them.
The technology
available to support automated CM is fast becoming more available
for large applications and specific platforms.
Whether it is updating
their existing in-house CM system, starting from scratch by buying
third-party software, or rebuilding their in-house CM system using
available third-party tools as building blocks, finding an
off-the-shelf CM solution to complex CM problems is not
easy.
Configuration
Management Hanscom – where do you
start?
The lack of suitable
CM technology to solve difficult CM problems also stems from the
fact that the CM solution is very much dependent on solutions to
other software engineering problems.
The complexity of many
CM problems would be reduced if we knew how to better describe the
architecture of our software applications and families of
applications in such a way that a CM system could easily allow
programmers to make changes and propagate them, delete parts, and
rearrange the software architecture to easily and safely accommodate
and propagate change.
Consider the problem
of maintenance in general. It is very difficult to maintain a large
application over a long period of time. Many aspects change over
time, including hardware technology, such as the change from
time-sharing facilities to distributed, heterogeneous workstations;
and tools, such as the change from simple compilers to structure
editors.
Providing for change
is difficult, almost as much as predicting what changes the future
holds.
THE ASSET MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT
Each
item included is of the highest quality, tailor made to cover a
different aspect and issue. It includes presentations,
questionnaires, guidelines, fact sheets.... and whole gamut of
material specifically put together to both introduce and take you
through Asset Management.
It comprises the
following components (click
here)
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