Configuration Management - lecture 1b:

Overview

Literature

• Babich - chapter 2, 3 and 5.
  Read these chapters before the lecture. 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

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).