Questions tagged [change-management]

The concept of using a defined method to ensure that changes to system architecture are controlled and organized.

The concept of using a defined method to ensure that changes to system architecture are controlled and organized.

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Recommended Development practices for working with Siebel CRM?

I may be working with Siebel CRM soon, and I'm looking for advice on using modern development practices and enterprise best practices. Specifically I'd like advice on the following areas: How should we set up version control (specifically with…
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Pull deployment in Windows environment

I'm looking for a way to setup pull deployment as apposed to the traditional push deployment model under Windows. The optimal situation would be: Deploy the file(s) to the master server The child server would check to see if the master had an…
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Keep different database environment synched

At the moment we manually push changes from our DEV SQL environment to the TEST and production (using Schema compare in Visual studio, plus some script we create while making changes to the DEV), but this is very time consuming and error prone. We…
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Change Management

I am currently working on company which has several products with the same release cycle. The problem that i got is i will need to create release file which include all files released and what the change for. And there are number of occasions where…
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svn to store documents for the purpose of change management

Is it a good idea to keep project related documents in svn ? is there any document management app (sharepoint?) you can recommend for this ? The question is for a medium size software house (20 devs).
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verify that command line examples in the readme work after code changes

In the context of a Java/Maven/Markdown/Git project - what's the most elegant way to break the build if command lines featured in the project readme file stopped working after the code change. The one I can think of is have an ant task that would…
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Best Practices to Build an Admin Approval System

there should be a sub system of admin panel which different users can manage their products but every change should be approved by administrator before going affecting the main Product table. there is three main table: Product : store products that…
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Database source control vs. schema change scripts

Building and maintaining a database that is then deplyed/developed further by many devs is something that goes on in software development all the time. We create a build script, and maintain further update scripts that get applied as the database…
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Source core repositories and sticky notes

An interesting problem occured recently, and I've been thinking of the "best" way (for a given value of "best") to implement this. In essence, it's one of tracking notes against source code. The example that flagged this was getting a problem fixed…
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For persistent data in Terracotta, how to evolve classes?

We are considering Terracotta for our next project. I am intrigued by its potential to provide data persistence without the need for a separate DBMS. (See also On using Terracotta as a persistence solution) One of the major pains of software…
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liquibase change primary key granularity

I need to change a table to add a column and include it to the Primary Key. So I have a luiqbase changeset: I wonder how to separate concerns and implement rollback correctly. addColumn and PK changes in one changeset
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How do you create change logs for your projects?

I am using subversion as an RCS and Bugzilla for issue tracking. And i just ask myself how to create automatic change logs for the users? I already tried the "svn2cl" tool. But the change logs it creates are to technical for me (e.g. no user want's…
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git record-only merge / whitelist known breaks from interbranch diff report

I have an automatic report aimed at catching missing commits between release branches based on the output of tgt=$(git rev-parse --verify "origin/${TARGET_BRANCH}") ref=$(git rev-parse --verify "origin/${REFERENCE_BRANCH}") git log --oneline…
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Getting Change Management records with Service Now API

I am having the change management number CH****12. I want to get the records for this change management number in ServiceNow API. For example, I had incident number and got the records with incident number INC*****12 through accessing…
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How can I use D3 to graph configuration items and their dependencies?

I'm a new user to D3 and am trying to think about how to best implement a mapping of our configuration items. What I'm looking for is essentially a treemap (I think) but with inter-related dependencies. The Data I'm working with ITIL-style…
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