Robust configuration management (CM) practices are critical for creating continuous application build, package and deployment to support agile’s integration and testing demands, and for rapidly packaging, releasing, and deploying applications into production. Classic CM—identifying system components, controlling changes, reporting the system’s configuration, and auditing—won’t do the trick anymore. Bob Aiello presents an in-depth tour of a more robust and powerful approach to CM consisting of six key functions: source code management, build engineering, environment management, change...Learn More
Bob Aiello
CM Best Practices Consulting
Bob Aiello is a consultant and author with more than twenty-five years of prior experience as a technical manager at leading financial services firms, with company-wide responsibility for CM, ALM and DevOps. He often provides hands-on technical support for enterprise source code management tools, SOX/Cobit compliance, build engineering, continuous integration, and automated application deployment. He serves on the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) management board and served as the technical editor for CM Crossroads for more than 15 years. Bob is also editor of the Agile ALM DevOps journal, coauthor of Configuration Management Best Practices (Addison-Wesley, 2011) and his latest book Agile Application Lifecycle Management - Using DevOps to Drive Process Improvement (http://agilealmdevops.com).