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wStrategies for Effective Change Management | Graduating from Version ControlA White Paper by Aldon
Version 1.0: November 2007Version 2.0: July 2008
Today's software development process must evolve to meet business demands. Simple tools that were originally designed to fulfill relatively isolated software development tasks and projects are no longer adequate. For all but the simplest of projects, the capacity of version control tools to meet current business and rigorous development requirements has been exceeded. This white paper examines how enterprise SCM solutions offer the means for aligning IT process with overall business needs.
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A Framework for IT C1ompliance
Successful companies understand that evolving and adapting their business processes over time is essential for survival. It's a reality facing nearly every segment of business every single day; and IT-controlling many of the core processes that run today's enterprises-is the central driver for change. Faced with ever-growing, market-wide pressures, IT teams are seeking solutions from software configuration and change management vendors to meet the rapidly evolving needs of their businesses. Graduating from simple versioning tools to an enterprise software configuration management (SCM) solution could mean the difference between success and failure.
According to IDC, IT development teams must meet the following requirements to survive the next five years:vDeliver quality, bug-free codevReduce complexity around integrationvTake the costs out of securityvMake innovations more timely, compelling, and less costlyvOffer software at costs commensurate with the benefits received and measured by relevant metrics
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Quality software delivered on time and that works as intended is an absolute expectation, not a nebulous goal. To meet this demand, IT must commit to every stage of the design, development, and deployment lifecycle of their products.
So what can IT do to survive in this complex and demanding marketplace?
Ever-improving SCM products are addressing critical development needs of developers, IT managers, and CIOs by:
vHelping IT organizations reduce spending and improve service vAddressing the demand to more tightly align IT with business needs that are often driven by internal governance issues and external regulatory and standards compliancevReducing the complexity of integrating the work of geographically distributed development teams in multi-platform development environmentsvSimplifying the development process associated with complicated applicationsvProviding a better methodology for reusing artifacts, meeting shorter development cycles, and controlling and securing fast, reliable, and remote accessvMeeting the increased demand for greater administrative visibility into IT by providing a system of actionable metrics, offering role-based views of all application development and maintenance projects and enhancing accountability standards
Savvy, forward-looking IT organizations have already adopted and are benefiting from the use of robust, integrated SCM products to meet this ever-increasing demand to adapt, control, streamline, monitor, and improve IT business processes.
There is still a tendency among some in IT to view development as a single, monolithic stage rather than accepting the fact that software development should be managed as a set of distinct, identifiable stages. Working with version control alone, these developers ignore the proven benefits of adopting a more comprehensive, process-oriented SCM solution, including: the lack of visibility and management of IT business processes, people and assets; limited regulatory and standar... [download for more]
