Configuration Management - lecture 5a:

Industrial presentation and SCM & DevOps

External presenter - What is Software CM in real life
Christian Pendleton from Curious Island
Biography: Christian started working with CM in 1994. The major part of his experiences comes from working with software in large Swedish organisations. In 2005 he got to work with agile methods for the first time and he has since then added roles as scrum master, agile coach and devops coach to his cv. He is very interested in how CM-related practices can be used to support agile ways of working. Today he’s a part of Curious Island in Malmö with a current assignment at Volvo Cars in Lund.
Abstract: Christian will talk about how I see the SCM role today in the Swedish industries and how it differs in various companies. I encourage you to bring questions that you have about the life of a CM today and what to consider when you enter the market.

Literature

• Lars Bendix, Christian Pendleton, Erik Hochbergs, Laroy Nilsson Sjödahl: Bringing Software Configuration Management and DevOps together, sneSCM.org white paper, October, 2021.
  Video (230 Mb), slides and discussion questions (other questions).
  Read the paper. Make sure that you understand how SCM can be useful and valuable also in a DevOps context.

External presentation hand-outs.

Lecture summary

• Industrial presentation
• Questions and Answers
• general feedback on paper reviews
• SCM in a DevOps context
• DevOps characteristics
• SCM activities

Quote of the day

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. (John Kenneth Galbraith)