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High Level Best Practices in Software Configuration Management

Overview When deploying new software configuration management (SCM) tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor, large-scale practices from their previous jobs or tools. The result is a well-executed blunder. This paper promotes some high-level best practices that reflect the authors' experiences in deploying SCM.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Perforce Software	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Project Management, Software Engineering, Application Development

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