Re: Why Change Management? was: IBM Unveils Change Management Software for System i

judging by the number of videos on the subject of VS 2010 Team Solutions on
the channel 9 site,

http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Visual+Studio+2010/

microsoft is making a big move in management of the software development
process. Traditional change management focuses on deploying the apps. VS
2010 TS looks to be about scheduling your programmers time, making sure they
adhere to the tier design of the app. Maybe this is inspired by the
outsourcing of programming to offshore locations. Corporate designs the app,
then uses teams of programmers on the other side of the globe to code it.


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:31 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, this is going off on a tangent (hence the change in subject line)
but there are several reasons why people want change management purposes.
1 - Audit of what changed and why.
2 - Last time when we change this we also had to change this, this and
this. What were they again?
3 - Automatic promotion to one or more other systems.
4 - Keeping track of options that you can't easily bury in the H spec (if
RPG) like adopting authority and other like issues.
5 - Conflict resolution. If I promote this printer file and when it gets
to one of the production machines I want to find out if someone did a
CHGPRTF and changed the lines per page or some such thing by simply doing
CHGPRTF. Don't just clobber the existing printer file with the new one.
6 - Man that change was fubar. Automatically back it out.

Rob Berendt
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From:
Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
12/02/2008 01:19 PM
Subject:
Re: IBM Unveils Change Management Software for System i
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From: "rob"
Pros: Probably a tool that is 100% based around RDi. This may
help beat the remaining SEU dinosaurs into RDi.

Based around RDI? Time to add another Gig of RAM ;-)

In a former life I was a menber of a development team, using MS Visual
Studio to develop an MES [manufacturing execution system]. Since our
developer tools were all PC based, and we were generating a lot of PC
based software artifacts, we relied heavily on a network based change
management system.

But my former life is a distant memory, and one that I wouldn't want to
return to. I've since returned to coding in RPG, and using PDM, and the
world has returned to balance. Software development is less complex, now.
The product I'm working on is serer based, the tools are server based.
Life is good. Actually, I rely on a PC based editor for HTML and
JavaScript, but I store the files on the IFS.

Reading the announcement letter from IBM on this product made me remember
how complicated software development can get. No thanks.

Nathan.




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