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 [...]

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 to [...]

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 dramatically affects [...]

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 [...]