After being neglected and offline for almost a year, AllSCM.com is making a comeback!  With a new sleek design, and more valuable information you can shake a stick at.  The content distribution will be on a whole new level.  Contents will be organized in major sections that will make navigation much easier and self-guiding for [...]

Yours truly got mentioned in the latest issue of SD Times (Software Development Times news magazine for development managers). You can download the issue in its entirety here. You can find the article on page 43 with the piece titled “Ch-Ch-Changes.”  The article was written by Susan Messenheimer and Carol Weiszmann with a focus on [...]

Whether you are in management or actual SCM Engineers, don’t build black boxes.   Sure building black boxes does have its perk especially in the job security department, but in the long run its only detrimental to the SCM Engineer and company’s health.   So what is Black Box? No, Black Box is not referring [...]

Being directly associated with build and release field for almost a decade, I really believe there are certain factors which will inevitably differentiate a good and great SCM (Build and Release) Engineer.  This is really a niche position within the software development spectrum and not everyone can do it well. Sure, I do believe anyone [...]

A lot of people in the development community often misconstrue the discipline of software configuration management as another function of IT.  I’m sure other software configuration management Engineers agree with me when I say:  We are NOT anything close to being I.T. !   SCM is so much more than Information Technology management/support.  Don’t mistake this [...]

I haven’t been posting for a couple of weeks now; I’ve actually been on an interview binge.  I have been unhappy with the current company due to various reasons–I will discuss these in future postings.   I was bombarded with requests for interviews as soon as I opened the floodgate to recruiters and headhunters.  I did [...]