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I am in the process of putting together a short training course to introduce non-CM managers to configuration management. The idea is to keep it ver...
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It’s official: I’m a Git (convert)
I’ve tinkered with Git in the past, mainly to familiarise myself with its capabilities and its command line. Recently I needed to do some development work for a client and I knew I...
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Puppet and Windows
So, my new role involves more than my usual amount of environment management. Typically I manage environments consisting of a few servers for integration testing. Once things are handed over from development my...
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Proposal: Configuration management is a modelling discipline
We are all familiar with the basic tenets of configuration management; identification, change control, status accounting, and audit. Some would add other disciplines such as build engineering, release management, and a variety of...
Build Management
Build management uses build systems, developed by build engineering, with source and environment configurations provided by configuration management, to schedule and execute builds to produce controlled products.
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Deployment
Deployment takes the output of build management and, under the direction of an environment manager, installs those products for use.
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Release Management
Release management plan and control product releases. Essentially, release management provide a coordination function and a quality gate into production.
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Build Engineering
Build engineering is the technical discipline that constructs product from sources. Sources are established by development and configuration management, transformed by build engineering into product.
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Change Management
Change management is the discipline that proactively manages changes to IT systems. Change management is essential to maintaining configuration integrity.
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Configuration Management
Configuration management (CM) is the foundation on which all of the other IT management disciplines rest. Without a suitable CM system managing IT becomes impractical, costly and error prone.
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Why Mark? experience is the key
With over 25 years experience helping organisations large and small to improve the way they develop and manage their IT systems I am well placed to help you too.
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Working on a contract or consulting basis, I can help with investigations, assessments, remedial planning, and execution of improvement programmes.
Community
I am an active supporter of open source and creative commons products. I fund the ITSLM web site, an open community project to develop creative commons licensed documentation and support for the core disciplines on this site. A part of this effort is the Open Source ALM project that describes open source options for providing application lifecycle management functions.
I have also started the Omneity project, an ambitious open source development project to develop a suite of tools to support the integration and analysis of development information from across the core disciplines on this site.
In addition to the ITSLM effort I am providing from this site resources that you are welcome to use as you like, providing you comply with the Creative Commons license.
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The Phlogiston Theory is not equivalent to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
In recent days the Internet science community has got its collective nickers in a mighty twist. The disciples of the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis (AAH) have dared to hold an international congress in London and the, oh so irresponsible, press has wasted precious print and cyber space reporting on this frivolity....
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Latest Java Update Broken; Two New Sandbox Bypass Flaws Found
msm1267 writes "Oracle's long security nightmare with Java just gets worse. A post to Full Disclosure this morning from a security researcher indicated that two new sandbox bypass vulnerabilities have been discovered and reported to Oracle, along with working exploit code. Oracle released Java 7u11 last Sunday and said it...
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Scientist Explains Why Putting Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral
There's been plenty of debate recently over "open access" to research and the morality of locking it up behind a paywall. Some have been arguing that Aaron Swartz's apparent plan to release JSTOR research papers (a plan that was never confirmed anywhere that I've seen other than random speculation)...