Software Build and Release Specialist

Latest Entries
Apr 16

Release Management Access Control

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 [...]

Jun 30

Software Configuration Management Vision

An SCM group just isn’t serious without proper vision statements and lofty goals. Even if you’re the lone SCM Engineer within your group, you should still strife for certain milestones.  The software field is constantly evolving which means SCM should closely mirror that evolution.
It should be the ultimate goal of an SCM Engineer [...]

May 10

I.T. Service Agreements

Numerous times in the past as well as recently my SCM group have ran into service related problems with the company’s IT.  The underlying concern is where do we draw the line of support between SCM and IT when the build farm servers need servicing.  In particular, when important reporting/build servers crashes which [...]