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Software Configuration
Management White Papers
Software Configuration
Management white papers are in abundance but one thing I have
identified is that the majority of these are the vendor specific –
our software is the best because type blurb. The independent
analysis type whitepapers are a lot fewer and further between type
ones.
Software Configuration
Management white papers – benefits
overall
After reading dozens
of white papers, I have notice that most of them have very similar
benefits. The benefits for all can be broken down into three groups.
Listed below are the typical ones:
Benefits for project
managers
When you automate the
hand-offs related to changes, you achieve faster code
turnover, shorter
development cycles, easier adaptability to market changes
and better use of an
individual developer’s
special skills. You are able to:
- Prevent unauthorized
access to assets
- Account for and
report the progress of development efforts
- Coordinate, track
and manage change activities
Benefits for
developers
Developers have
concerns that are different from those of management.
Managing change
prevents these common day-to-day aggravations that
developers face in ad
hoc team development:
- What happened to
this piece of code? It worked yesterday!
- What issues have
been assigned to me for resolution?
- What happened to the
fix I added to this code last week?
- Did the right
changes go into the release?
- Why isn’t
that graphic on the website yet?
- I thought there was
a bug in this code, but now I can't reproduce it.
Benefits for business
managers
Executive management
will see benefits for the business overall:
- Ability to deliver
revisions, updates and cross-platform versions, faster
- Confidence that each
release addresses all the requested changes
- Higher productivity
of a valuable resource talented
developers
- Less time wasted
fixing old code
- Improved customer
satisfaction
- Confidence that web
content is correct and the site is stable
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
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