What is the difference between a major and significant change?
Major Change means any of the following: (1) introduction of a new process, new process equipment, or new regulated substance; (2) any change in safe operating limits; or (3) any alteration in a process, process equipment, or process chemistry that introduces a new hazard or worsens an existing hazard. Login.
Receptiveness to Change - CMCrossroads
The reasons they react differently are many, including differences in upbringing, personality, life experiences, and fear of the impact of the change. You might think of receptiveness to change as a continuum. At the left end of the continuum are people who are strenuously unreceptive to change. These people want to keep doing things the same ...
Configuration Management (CM and SCM) Q&A and Advice
But after discussion with the project lead today, and answered responses to a review of drafted CM plan. They want little to no CM support, not even recording or archiving their CDRLs. They would much rather rely on each area to draft, review, and provide CDRLs to customer early on, plus they are using Sharepoint as well to allow customer to ...
Taking the Complexity out of Release Management - CMCrossroads
Most work is going on in R4 and perhaps work on some major areas of R5 are starting. Your tools should be able to tell you when a change to R3 or R4 may need to be applied to other release streams. So what we have is a 2-dimensional (2D) release branching strategy. Instead of the traditional main branch, there are release streams.
What Is Release Management, and Why Is It Needed?
Release management provides these capabilties. It is the glue that holds all the key departments of a software development lifecycle together, including business and functional requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and ongoing maintenance. The basic tenets of release management are as follows:
CM Roles, Responsibilities, Skills, and Job Descriptions
Based on the major responsibilities classified in the “CM Roles to Responsibilities Matrix” above (based on the perform builds responsibility), here are the skills needed within this CM role. This role may be managed by a mid-level CM professional (or a junior-level CM professional of the build process and technology are well defined and ...
How to Build a Configuration Management Plan - CMCrossroads
Your CM plan has to specify that builds will be automated. Automating a build process requires the right tools. The build process involves a few steps: (1) Identifying what you want in the build. (2) Retrieving the source code that reflects what you want. (3) Running a build operation (series of complies, links, etc.)
Getting Employees On Board when Implementing Change …
Change is a difficult but important part of business. It can be most difficult on the employees, but if you involve them in the planning process and make an effort to understand their points of view, you can mitigate resistance and facilitate the experience for everyone. This article deals specifically with ERP implementation, but its advice is useful for …
Why Change and Configuration Management Needs Analytics
Summary: Analytics-driven management stands to end the key challenges that constrain change and configuration management. By applying powerful analytics to the overwhelming change and configuration data, IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) technology can turn massive amounts of information into clear, actionable insights.
Three Major Trends in Software Release Management You Should …
Software companies with tight-knit agile and robust release management practices have a significant competitive advantage. To realize this advantage, an organization must first optimize its release management process and identify the most appropriate platform and release management tools. In this article, Surinderpal Kumar explains three major software release management trends every software ...