Configuration Management - seminar 4b:

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 - mov (265 Mb), Video - mp4 (681 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.
• Lars Bendix, Christian Pendleton, Erik Hochbergs, Laroy Nilsson Sjödahl: Bringing Software Configuration Management and DevOps together, sneSCM.org white paper, October, 2021.
  Video - mov (206 Mb), Video - mp4 (622 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.

Seminar summary

• Product Data Management
• PDM & SCM - similarities and differences
• PDM and SCM integration
• SCM in a DevOps context
• DevOps characteristics
• SCM activities

Quote of the day

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