Access Control, at first glance seems to be a rather straight forward topic or task to handle.  Well, I can assure you it is not.  Especially when you’re working in an Engineering organization that seems to be schizophrenic at times in terms of its own unique identity.   I’m talking about how there should be [...]

I’ve seen a lot of organizations running into this problem such that their build environment gets to a point where it is so complicated that the best way to preserve it is through archiving the image.  I’m talking about archiving the entire build machine using image tools such as Norton Ghost, VMWare, or Microsoft VirtualPC.  [...]

Software Build and Release has such a hectic schedule–sometimes you just can’t help it but to get caught in it all and get burned out.  Aside from a successful proposal of a new build and release infrastructure and getting all the development teams on board, the headache starts when the implementation and back-to-back release schedule [...]

To promote the spirit of Agile Development and Continuous Integration, groups of builds must be classified and treated differently within the development organization. These builds are as follows: Engineering: These builds lives on the individual developer’s machine. It should never see the light of day beyond this scope. This is merely a convenient build tool [...]