Posts Tagged build
When is a change a change?
Posted by Mark in Build Management, Change Management, Configuration Management, Plain Old Blog, Software Configuration Management, Version Control on June 12, 2010
A change can be viewed in two ways; conceptually or literally. What I mean by this distinction is that when I say the requested change is to “correct spelling mistakes in the poem” I am specifying conceptually what the change is to achieve (and after the fact, what the change achieved). On the other hand [...]
Stubbing in build processes
Posted by Mark in Build Management, CMCrossroads, Configuration Management, ITSLM, Plain Old Blog on January 5, 2010
When developing systems of any size the development team inevitably encounters the following problem. The developers of one sub-system need access to functionality to be provided by another, but the second sub-system is not in a position to provide the functionality and probably will not be for some time. When this happens it is common [...]
Forensic Configuration Management
Posted by Mark in Configuration Management, ITSLM, Plain Old Blog on September 21, 2009
One of the things about being a freelance consultant is that you often get to see projects when they are at their worst ebb. After all, one is seldom called in to solve non-problems. The basic pattern of a contract goes like this. Work out what is going on. Work out how it got that [...]
