Configuration Management - seminar 4b:

Industrial presentation and SCM & PDM

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. Through working as an Android developer creating mobile retail applications, she experienced agile ways of working, leading to her current role as scrum master and an agile coach.
Abstract: Anna will introduce you to practical uses of SCM in the context of a real software development project.

Literature

• Ivica Crnkovic, Annita Dahlqvist, Daniel Svensson: Complex Systems Development Requirements - PDM and SCM Integration, in Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software, 2001.
  Video (265 Mb), slides and discussion questions (other questions).
  Read this paper to brush up on what SCM is and to get and idea of what PDM is - and reflect on the potential consequences of the similarities and differences between PDM and SCM.

External presentation hand-outs.

Seminar summary

• Industrial presentation
• Questions and Answers
• Product Data Management
• PDM & SCM - similarities and differences
• PDM and SCM integration

Quote of the day

Always remember: Writing software from requirements is like walking on water. It is much easier if it is frozen !!! (Anonymous)