Software Configuration Management

Would you like to hit your delivery dates every time? Do you need a better way to manage change across the development lifecycle? Do you need a solution that overcomes the complexity of managing distributed or parallel development?

If so, you need comprehensive task-based lifecycle control for your organization’s software development assets.

Software Configuration Management, essential to successful software development, is the discipline that applies control over the lifecycle of digital assets. To ensure successful development, Software Configuration Management should offer a proven, team-oriented workflow approach that scales to meet your needs – from small teams to large distributed teams.

A task-based approach to Software Configuration Management is intuitive as it enables you to group and manage complex changes, which can impact several files in a configuration, within a single object. And it efficiently coordinates and communicates the development activities of all your team members.

Task-based Software Configuration Management provides:

  • Ensures the consistency of user deliveries and workspaces through workflow driven by logical changes (such as fixes and enhancements) that would usually span multiple files.
  • Accelerates development through the identification and resolution of integration problems
  • Provides Project Management with total control and flexibility of release content through configurations created from a baseline plus a set of changes associated with a list of tasks.

When integrated with Change Management, Software Configuration Management enables software development tasks to be driven by change requests, providing developers with the full context for their work and project managers with visibility of the status of change requests through to their implementation and release in new software builds.

Effective configuration management is essential to dynamic software development.