The Specialist Group for Change, Configuration and Release Management

Presentations

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Presenter(s)	Title (link to abstract)	Link to Paper
Shirley Lacy & Ivor Macfarlane	Where did my CMDB go? What has Configuration Management become in the 21st Century?	Download paper
	Summary of All Interactive Sessions (60 pages)	Download paper
John Dixon	The Configuration Management Value Proposition	Coming
Kevin Holland	How Service Transition supports the need for effective Configuration Management - an ITIL V3 perspective	Download paper
Shirley Lacy and Ivor Macfarlane	What is the CMDB/CMS all for?	Download paper
John Boyce	Practical challenges of implementing an effective CMDB and global Configuration Management platforms and processes	Download paper
Majid Iqbal	CMS and the untapped potential: Knowledge management for the ITIL Service Lifecycle	Download paper
Ryan Lloyd	Building an Application CMDB	Download paper
John Dixon	How can we judge the value of a CMDB/CMS	Coming
Shahin Nassiri	Deploying Subversion in a distributed environment	Download paper
Steve Straker	Configuration Management and the federated CMDB	Download paper
Kevin Holland	CMS - Barriers and Critical Success Factors	Download paper
David Richards	Replicating Subversion: The Active-Active Way	Download paper
Kevin Parker	Innovation Without Permission	Download paper
Krzysztof Baczkiewicz	Tailor your Configuration Management technology to your needs	Download paper
Andrew Pieri and Mark Smith	Case Study - CMDB/CMS Pilot implementation	Download paper
Martin McEvoy	CMDB - a Journey, Not a Destination: Best Practices from the Field	Download paper
Kate Robinson	Configuration Management: The Powerhouse of Service Management…or is it?	Download paper
Alan Morbey and Chris Beighton	Continuous Integration without Branching	Download paper
WorkingParty	How to improve an existing Configuration Management process	Download paper
John Martin	Reusable Component Management Through the use of Subversion Externals	Download paper
Gaurav Dutt Uniyal	Ignite your Configuration Engines – Real world experiences for CMDB Success	Download paper
Neal R Firth	Consolidating your SCM Infrastructure – migrating between Tools	Download paper
Gene Kim	The Visible Ops Approach to Implementing CMDBs	Coming
Ian Preskett	Why Software Asset Management (SAM) and the CMDB need each other	Download paper
Ivor Macfarlane	Service management requirements for the CMDB/CMS	Coming
Jack Repenning	How open source Subversion is all grown up…standing shoulder to shoulder with proprietary solutions	Download paper
Amir Nooriala	CMDB in Practice - Real case-study of Implementing a CMDB in a large global institution	Download paper
Martyn Hobbs	Closing the gap between the Data Centre and the Customer	Download paper
Mike Tomkinson	Service Asset & Configuration Management Vision	Download paper
Tom Gilb	Quantifying Top Management Objectives for IT Systems	Download paper
Trevor Lea-Cox	A surprising lesson for the CMDB from Containerised Cargo Services	Download paper
Richard Croucher	The CMDB as the core component in creating agile infrastructures	Download paper
Harvey Davison	How do you populate your CMDB?	Download paper
Rainer Heinold	Make the most out of Subversion 1.5 in the Enterprise	Download paper
Cathy Brown	How to Keep Your Auditor Happy!	Download paper
John Tabeart	Intelligent Sat Nav for Service Management – How to drive business value from your CMDB/CMS	Not presented
Mark Bools	Bringing the CMS solution to fruition	Download paper
Thiago H. Burgos de Olveira	Software Configuration Management Diversity – A Commercial Study Case	Download paper
Rob Addy	Discover the truth about discovery	Download paper
John Metcalfe	Selecting a CMS Tool	Download paper
Robin Fawcett	Identifying and sharing best practices for implementing configuration management	Download paper
Keith Allen	Managing changes to applications services from requirements to production with ITIL, COBIT and the CMDB/CMS	Download paper
David Cuthbertson	Applying Configuration Management to the Data Centre	Download paper
Shirley Lacy and Ian Salvage	Implementation - What works and what doesn’t	Download paper
Gerald Tombs	Creating an integrated Open Source CM solution	Download paper

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