Configuration management (CM) is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system's or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.[1] For information assurance, CM can be defined as the management of security features and assurances through control of changes made to hardware, software, firmware, documentation, test, test fixtures, and test documentation throughout the life cycle of an information system. scmGalaxy.com is dedicated to software configuration, build and Release management. This covers CVS, VSS (Visual Source Safe),Perforce, SVN(Subversion) MKS Integrity, ClearCase,TFS,CM Synergy, Best Practices ,AnthillPro, Apache Ant, Maven, Bamboo, Cruise Control and many more tools.

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5. Need for Configuration Management

8. A disorganized team 1 Guys, I heard you have finally cracked the cluster problem!! Congratulations !! What was it? 2 It’s a silly mistake boss!! An old version of the code was over-written which did not serialize the property files. 3 How did the old version get in there? 4 Prakash was trying to debug some problem last week from on-site and he fixed the problem in the old source and pushed them!!

11. Role of a Configuration manager

14. Activities involved Management & Planning (SCMP) Software Configuration Management Software Configuration Identification Software Configuration Control Software Configuration Status Accounting Software Configuration Auditing Software Release Mgmt & Delivery

17. Role of CM at various stages

27. CM – important tasks

30. Configuration items

38. Version management tools

45. Files in the repository

47. CMP – configuration management plan

59. Release Management

71. Branching in CVS

73. Demo of branching

74. Supporting multiple environments

80. Mindtree CM’s role

81. SCMP Process at MindTree

82. What are PM’s Responsibilities? Conduct internal SCM audits Plan SCM Audit & ensure compliance Train the team Plan SCM related trainings for the team Establish SCM Processes (checkin,checkout,build,release) & ensure compliance Ensure setup of SCM Processes Establish Change Control Process Ensure CCB is established Create SCM Plan Ensure creation of SCM Plan Identify SCM tool Identify SCM tool Identify Configuration Manager CM’s Responsibilities PM’s Responsibilities

83. What are PM’s Responsibilities? CM’s Responsibilities PM’s Responsibilities Releases (QA, UAT, Production) Setup / Automation of builds Branching Tagging Directory Structure Naming Conventions Baselining Communicate the importance of SCM to the team

84. Case study

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