Configuration Management - lecture 5a:

Industrial presentation and Wrap-up lecture

External presenter - What is Software CM in real life
Anna Klackenberg from Netlight
Biography: Anna graduated from LTH with a master's in industrial engineering in 2019 and took the SCM-course in 2018. Since then, she has been working as a consultant first at Accenture, currently at Netlight with previous projects both as a mobile developer and agile coach. Currently she is applying her skills in Android in building infotainment systems in cars.
Abstract: Anna will introduce you to practical uses of SCM in the context of a real software development project.

Literature

• Dart: Configuration Management - the missing link in web engineering, chapter 3.
  Read this chapter and enjoy Susan Dart's grand tour of Configuration Management.
• Tom Milligan: Better Software Configuration Management Means Better Business.
  Read this paper and appreciate how you, as a soon-to-be CM expert, will be able to help a company prosper ;-)

External presentation hand-outs.

Lecture slides in pdf.

Lecture summary

• Industrial presentation
• Questions and Answers
• general feedback on paper reviews
• SCM Hall of Fame
• SCM definition of the week
• course overview - looking back
• the empire of SCM

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)