Tim
will present the advantages of having full Change and Configuration
Management, compared with the straightforward source control that many
organisations employ. He will cover the full application life cycle,
audit, meta-data, concurrent & parallel development and heterogeneous
platforms. Examples and case studies will be drawn from Merant’s
implementation experiences in a range of organisations including the finance
and pharmaceutical sectors.
10:50 – 11:20 Tea, Coffee and Networking
11:20 – 12:05 The CM of Testware
Steve
Littlejohn, SIM Group
Configuration
Management is well known for the control and management of hardware,
software, netware and even “documentware”.
Placing this same level of control over testware is not as well
known, leaving testware as the Cinderella of the configuration management
world. Test environments, test
plans and scripts (both manual and automated) are often left behind to keep
dust of the shelves. Steve will
use practical examples from case studies and testware implementations.
Steve works for the SIM Group as a Senior Consultant.
12:05 – 12:30 The CM Standards Family Tree
Neil White, Quintec Associates
Neil will give a short
presentation on some of the significant developments and key aspects of
current and emerging standards for use in the field of Configuration
Management. He will explain where these standards may be used and some of
the consequences in their use and their benefits in real life! Neil is a
Senior Consultant at Quintec Associates where he is the Configuration
Management Capability Manager.
12:30
– 13:30 Lunch and Networking
13:30
– 14:15 Shifting the Emphasis from Configuration to Change Management
John
Parker, Actio Limited
(Presentation
(PDF, 842kb))
A
fresh look at how projects can be successfully delivered by focusing
on the features and fixes that are essential for each release.
Rather
than considering Change Management as something to bolt on to a
Configuration Management System, this session will put the case for
making Change Management the driving force behind all product
development activities. Actio
Limited are independent CCM and infrastructure consultants.
14:15
– 14:35 CM Clinic
An opportunity for you
to bring along any CM related questions that you would like to discuss.
Questions will be collected during the day and can be on any CM
topic, whether related to the rest of the agenda or not.
These sessions are a
new idea in response to a feedback from previous meetings, so please bring
along any issues that are vexing you at the moment for some “free consultancy” from the wealth of assembled wisdom.
14:35 – 15:05 Tea, Coffee and
Networking
15:05
– 15:50 CM Tool Selection
Phil
Hicks, Wall Street Systems
Phil
will present the process that was used to select a CM tool for Wall Street
Systems, a leading treasury software house. He will outline some of the
problems faced, the approach that was used to select the best tool to meet
the company's needs and many other learning points that will be useful to
share.
15:50 – 16:10 Open Forum
An opportunity to raise
any points that have arisen during the day.
16:10 – 16:30 CMSG Updates
