Today’s complex application development environments demand sophisticated tools to track not only project duties, but also the issues that arise when the work involves more than one small group ...

When systems engineers build or repair computer software or hardware, they need consistent processes in place to keep it running smoothly. Configuration management is the name for this set of ...

Software configuration management (SCM) encompasses the systematic control, organisation and automation of software development processes. It involves tracking and controlling changes in the software, ...

A trio of cloud industry leaders have launched a new company with the mission of modernizing software configuration data management. That event demonstrated that software is now critical ...

Large software organizations—especially those running multiple concurrent development projects, with each project divided among teams—are beginning to agree. These companies have been scorched often ...

Admittedly, Lockheed Martin Information Technology has a tougher assignment than most, and that’s to clean up the Hanford nuclear waste site. As the IT group serving the project, the Lockheed team ...

Microsoft has followed a long and winding road with configuration management, and the company is taking some interesting new steps on the path. Configuration management at Microsoft started with the ...

(1) In a network, a system for gathering current configuration information from all nodes in a LAN. (2) In software development, a system for keeping track of large projects. Although version control, ...