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Software Configuration Management (SCM)Ensuring Reliable and Stable Software
Course: 342
Type: RealityPlus
Duration: 3 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Construct a project-based SCM plan to control and document project deliverables
- Identify the value of a controlled life cycle to justify the investment in SCM processes and tools
- Initiate software configuration management through a Configuration Identification procedure
- Specify a Configuration Control procedure to track changes to configuration items
- Indicate types & frequency of reports for Configuration Status Accounting to optimize team communications
- Design a Configuration Audit procedure for baselining and product release verification
Course Benefits Software configuration management is a process for facilitating and controlling changes to software products within an organization and is critical to producing and ensuring the integrity of those products. The implementation of proper SCM processes helps to maintain an organization's competitive edge. In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills necessary to establish effective SCM procedures at the project level and transfer the lessons learned to the organizational level.Who Should Attend SCM professionals, developers, testers, project managers and others who need to establish effective SCM procedures within their organization.Throughout this course, an interactive case study immerses you in the SDLC of a project from inception to product release. You use PC- and paper-based tools to gain experience in all SCM processes and tasks that you can integrate immediately in your organization. You acquire a robust skill set and experience in:
- Matching software project needs to SCM process capability
- Gathering the attributes and characteristics to create a candidate CI list
- Coordinating the check-in and check-out of CIs from/to the library
- Designing a change control process that accommodates change request and problem reports
- Creating a design baseline
- Identifying key reports needed for effective SCM communications
- Preparing an SCM plan for a software project
- Participating in a baselining and product release audit
Course 342 Content
- Illustrating why software projects do not succeed
- Triggers
- Benefits
- Challenges
- Controlling quality in the software development life cycle
- Configuration Identification
- Configuration Control
- Configuration Status Accounting
- Configuration Audits
- Extracting CIs from the product and the project
- Differentiating between controlled and uncontrolled items
- Devising an effective naming scheme
- Classifying items based on the nature of the project
- Document CIs
- Code CIs
- Data CIs
- Hardware CIs
- Defining baselining procedures
- Diagramming a CI traceability matrix
- Checking CIs into the software library
- Distinguishing between levels of control authority
- The who, what, when and why of change
- Change Authorities, CCBs and ICWGs
- Documenting the change request life cycle
- Establishing and communicating change control procedures
- Facilitating change management workflow
- Responding to critical software failures
- Ensuring the post-fix paper trail is completed
- Providing input for root cause analysis
- Identifying types and frequency of reports required in each phase of SCM
- Creating a history documenting need, fix and effect
- Deciding on automatic vs. manual methods
- Identifying the value in relational database tools
- Version control
- Build and release
- Change management
- Tracking CIs and CRs
- Important SDLC interactions with the SCM library
- Distinguishing types of audits and reviews
- Clarifying who does what in an audit
- Timing audits appropriately during the SDLC
- Acquiring audit checklists and verifying audit results
- Confirming forward and reverse traceability
- Verifying product configuration with system verification reviews, FCAs, and PCAs
- Establishing independence by separating development from the build
- Managing unique code lines and versions
- Knowing why and when to branch
- Knowing why and when to use variants
- The golden rule of merging
- Responsibilities of the SCM team
- Matching process steps to release types
- Positioning Quality Gates in the SDLC
- Timing the release appropriately
- Preparing release notes based on change items
- Authorizing and releasing the build
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