I'm working on my next article for Software Test & Performance magazine. Ordinarily, my "best practices" column is about the ways developers and testers do the...
Hi everyone out there. First, a brief introduction. Alan Cyment: Born and located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Msc from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Msc...
I used ENVY for several years, first in VisualWorks Smalltalk, later in VisualAge for Java. ENVY's component ownership model is unique. It is certainly...
... Agree. It's just that I too often see it discussed as if it were, especially when it's one of those "our way is better than your way" sort of things. Most...
Brad, I am on the side of collective code ownership. I've seen this work best in an engineering team of around 10. If the team is any bigger, it may work by...
... I've seen several points on the individual/collective ownership spectrum work well. In the middle ages (the 1980s) I was on a team designing heart ...
Hi Robert ... Sounds somewhat like a two-person "Feature Team" in FDD-style. Usually, unless the two "feature partners" have roughly comparable experience and ...
We received an honorable mention in the letters-to-the-editor section of The June 2005 issue of Software Development Magazine (www.sdmagazine.com). The April...
... I'm not familiar with the FDD-style feature team, but the way we did it was definitely not a degenerate team. I was the junior one on the team (fresh out...
... The perception of "Steward as Gatekeeper" concept is still about access/permission. That's not what stewardship is supposed to be about. I admit to be...
... I think I got the impression from the bullet list in the blog article: "When a portion of a module or class needs to change, the task-owner needs the...
Hi Colleagues, I wanted to seek your opinion in an aspect where we are looking for improvement. Current Scenario : In our organization, we are developing...
I found ENVY's method/class/app versioning granularity (instead of the "semanticless" file granularity of the rest of the SCM pack) to be very incredibly...
Hi Ravi! What you ask for sounds kind of like some of what BuildForge can do (see www.buildforge.com) I assume that along with your common configuration...
For those who recall the previous threads on "The 5 Orders of Traceability and Ignorance" and "Traceability is /not/ TRUST-a-bility" (and the corresponding...
Hi Brad, First of all, thanks a lot for the valuable input. What you mentioned here ... and there miught be a single file is the direction in which we are...
VisualAge and VisualWorks for Smalltalk did this too. And so did VisualAge for Java. Prior to that, there were some CASE tools in the early 90s that did this...
Yep, both VisualAge implementations had been mentioned in the thread...question remains as to why this idea didn't stick...Stellation project seems to be...
Based on previous feedback Ive tried to revise my description and expand my thoughts somewhat regarding "stewardship" and individual-vs-collective ownership. ...
Hi everyone, I'm working in a new role as a Configuration Manager for a data warehouse project. I'm putting together an SCM plan for this project, but first I...
For Search Optimizer (Yahoo Search Marketing) we use the first method listed below... We use ANT to do either "creates" (dev, qa, staging, etc. environments)...
Hi Daniel, did you see an examples and templates of SCM Plan, from CMII, for example? - http://www.icmhq.com/CMII%20White%20Papers/CM_Plan.pdf look for "CM...
Thanks Dmitry, Sorry, I mis-expressed myself. I was referring more to what is required out of the SCM Process itself, rather than a list of the sections in an...
Hi Dan! I would refer you to "The Principles of CM" discussion thread on CMCrossroads.com at <http://www.cmcrossroads.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=41248>...
Hi Brad! Thank you for these links. For me the main principles of SCM comes from the name "Configuration Management" => we need to manage configurations => we...
I heard about someone doing this somewhere but dont remember the details and was hoping someone here might remember or have an example/story ... I seem to...
I've been thinking about the practice of locking the SCM repository before a release, whether at the iteration level or a larger project release. My gut feel...
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