AccuRev White Paper Highlights Best Practices for Software Configuration Management; SCM Expert Uttam Narsu Outlines Keys to More Efficient Software Development.LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Addressing a critical issue facing the software development community, AccuRev Inc. today announced the availability of a white paper that highlights essential best practices for software configuration management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) - the processes that help maximize efficiency and minimize disruption through the development process. AccuRev's SCM white paper is the latest step in the company's continuing effort to educate the software development community on SCM best practices, the importance of processes, and how and when to implement each specific practice - all areas imperative to the success of a team's project, but often unaddressed by developers who instead employ less efficient ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. processes. AccuRev commissioned a leading software development industry expert - former Giga and Forrester industry analyst Uttam Narsu - to develop the white paper, which was guided by AccuRev's breakthrough work in the area of best practices. The white paper, "Software Configuration Management Best Practices", is available at: http://www.accurev.com/product/resource.htm. "According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. industry reports, two-thirds of all software projects fail, and improper use of SCM is often the cause of project failure," said Narsu. "Any organization, no matter how successful, would benefit from a library of scalable best practices for SCM, and this white paper highlights some of the key practices." In the AccuRev SCM white paper, Narsu provides background on the following SCM best practices, which help development teams of all sizes more efficiently, create, modify and maintain highly complex development projects: --Planning an SCM environment --Ensuring absolute reproducibility of all artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. --Employing change requests and change packages --Adopting and maintaining a private developer workspace model --Creating and working from appropriate baselines --Leveraging metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. for process improvement --Creating reusable components --Fostering merging and integration --Creating a structure for distributed development This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * Very few or no other articles link to this one. "AccuRev continues to take the lead in reaching out to the software development community to help them better manage today's complex development projects, and implementing SCM best practices is a key component of this effort," said Damon Poole, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and founder of AccuRev. "Working with users, partners and industry experts like Uttam Narsu, AccuRev is making progress in improving the way teams work together and produce higher quality software." AccuRev's efforts to innovate and improve best practices have helped to establish the company as a SCM leader in the software development community. AccuRev is taking a lead in advancing solutions and methodologies that address the complexities of today's parallel and distributed development environments, empowering software engineers and developers to be more productive and ultimately produce better quality software. AccuRev recently introduced a new version of its SCM solution that strengthened AccuRev's built-in best practices. This new version enabled developers to implement their ideal SCM process - not one dictated by the SCM tool. AccuRev also held a series of seminars aimed at educating developers and engineers about best practices and SCM issues. About AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev introduced the first breakthrough in software configuration management (SCM) in over 20 years, providing the flexibility and built-in best practices that developers need to manage today's complex, parallel and distributed software development projects. The Company's award winning, stream-based architecture uniquely overcomes the inadequacies of file-based branch and label tools by providing dynamic visualization control of the development hierarchy via a highly intuitive user interface. Global enterprises including American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Construx Software, Kronos, Polycom, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. are using AccuRev to increase developer productivity and reduce administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. . AccuRev, Inc. is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,355 at the 2000 census. The town is famous for being the site of the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first engagement of the American Revolution. and is privately held. For more information, visit www.accurev.com. AccuRev, TimeSafe and StreamBrowser are registered trademarks or trademarks of AccuRev, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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