Configuration Management - lecture 2:

Overview

Literature

• Babich - chapter 2, 3 and 5.

Read these chapters. Make sure that you fully understand:
• the difference between revisions and variants
• the importance of recording derivations
• why we must have reproducibility
• the need for and the distinction between baselines and private workspaces

Lecture summary

• versioning concepts and principles
• working and information
• putting together the pieces
• co-ordinating with others
• traditional CM
• Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
• a CM CMM

Hand-outs

3 slides pr. page, 6 slides pr. page

Quote of the day

... what the hell, let's call him Ramses, too ... (Ramses the 1st, inventor of versioning, at the birth of his son, 1784 BC).