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High-Level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management

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Overview When deploying new SCM (Software Configuration Management) tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor, large-scale practices from their previous jobs or previous tools. The result is a well-executed blunder. This paper promotes some high-level best practices that reflect the authors' experiences in deploying SCM. Best practices in SCM, like best practices anywhere, always seem obvious once someone has used them. This paper presents the practices that offer the greatest return and yet seem to be violated more often than not.

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