The enterprise software development arena can be a harsh and unrelenting environment – not a place for the faint-of-heart to work. Fortunately, software configuration management (SCM) software can make it not only more tolerable, but more efficient and, yes, even more successful.
SCM software is not a luxury, nor just another layer of technology to be added to an already complex process. SCM software is a necessity for development teams working concurrently and in parallel on development projects, especially those employing agile processes to deliver higher quality software more rapidly.
Two of the biggest benefits of using SCM software are the ability to coordinate distributed teams and parallel development more effectively, no matter where your team members are located or even the language of the replicas being used – they can be in the next cubicle, the next state, or the next country.
We, of course, recommend AccuRev SCM
No surprise there. After all, we designed it to be fast, flexible, scalable, and effective. After all, we’ve taken process management and version control and made the ideal mash-up that provides the most comprehensive set of SCM tools available, including these best practices:
- Change management
- Visualized SCM patterns
- Automated workflows
- Private developer history
- Multi-stage continuous integration
- Issue-based development
With a single set of comprehensive, best-practices SCM tools to work with, life becomes much easier for your development teams – they can focus on software development instead of management and administration tasks. SCM software made nice and simple.
What makes it even easier is how AccuRev SCM easily handles virtually any combination of development processes, including Agile, XP, and waterfall – you name it. You’re free to mix-and-match because AccuRev SCM’s flexible model enables your teams to rip through development with continuous integration, code refactoring, and automated code sharing, to name a few.
Even parallel development is a cinch with fully-transparent code base relationship management that enables teams to store work safely and test it before sharing it with others. A stream-based architecture makes code branching and merging easier, too – it even allows changes to be automatically inherited from other teams.
If for some reason you’re not already using SCM software or if you’re unhappy with whatever software configuration management tool you’re using now and you want to know more about SCM software and AccuRev SCM in particular, check out our SCM Software Resource Center and AccuRev SCM 5.3.
