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Principles of Software Configuration Management Print E-mail
Course Length - 4 Days
 
Course Description

This dynamic and comprehensive four-day workshop provides information needed to fully integrate Software Configuration Management (SCM) into your software development and maintenance process. It provides the best practices and a structured approach to the SCM key elements of Configuration Identification, Configuration Control, and Configuration Status Accounting. 

This is a "must attend" workshop for new SCM practitioners, as well as SCM professionals that want to update their skills with the latest techniques and information. Classroom exercises throughout the workshop provide hands-on experience in applying the proven change and configuration management techniques presented.

 
  
You Will:
  • Expand your knowledge of how to integrate SCM into you software development and maintenance process. 
  • Gain knowledge on how to identify and select your Software Configuration Items (SCI). 
  • Discover how to prepare and utilize an effective SCM Plan. 
  • Understand how to set realistic baselines. 
  • Learn how to manage release and version control. 
  • Become knowledgeable in how to establish and manage a software library
 
  
Who Should Attend?

This course is valuable for all personnel involved in the development or maintenance of IT-based systems, either as a practitioner or a manager. This includes staff with dedicated or mixed roles encompassing support, development, testing, configuration management, and quality assurance. This course would benefit anyone who is concerned with assuring the systematic and structured management of system requirements and development configuration. Prior experience with software configuration management is a plus, but is not required. An understanding of the basic software development process would be helpful.

 
  
Format

This course is 3 days of lecture and individual and group workshops presented in an interactive format. Real world examples are utilized to make the information relevant. Throughout this course, learned skills are practiced using exercises based on the information presented and on the current needs of the attendees. The emphasis is on techniques that allow attendees to transition the skills learned in this workshop to their own work environments. We will start to actually develop the Software Configuration Management Plan (SCMP) for your organization during the workshop, so bring any relevant material to class.