Publications

Agile SCM Column

Monthly columns by Brad Appleton, Steve Berczuk, and Robert Cowham in Crossroads News on the the CM Crossroads site.
March 2006:	Private Workspaces: Where Development Process Meets CM Process .
July 2005:	National Treasures of Agile Development. This is a Declaration of Independence for Agile Developers (presented with a bit of humor).  [Local PDF copy]
February 2005:	The Importance of Building Earnestly.  [Local PDF copy]
January 2005:	The Future of Agile CM.  [Local PDF copy]
December 2004:	The Illusion of Control.
November 2004:	Tasks and Branching Patterns.  [Local PDF copy].
October 2004:	The Agile Difference for SCM.  [Local PDF copy]
September 2004:	Agile Build Promotion: Navigating the Ocean of Promotion Notions.  [Local PDF copy]
August 2004:	Release Management: Making it Lean and Agile.  [Local PDF copy].
June 2004:	Learning from Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Systems Design.  [Local PDF copy].
May 2004:	Best Practices of Agile SCM.  [Local PDF copy].
April 2004:	Patterns and Software Configuration Management.  [Local PDF copy]
March 2004:	Continuous Staging: Scaling Continuous Integration to Multiple Component Teams
January 2004:	Applying Agile SCM to Databases.  [Local PDF copy].
December 2003:	Lessons Learned from Agile SCM.  [Local PDF copy].
November 2003:	Codeline Merging and Locking: Continuous Updates and Two-Phased Commits.  [Local PDF copy].
October 2003:	Agile SCM — Build Management for an Agile Team.  [Local PDF copy].
September 2003:	Continuous Integration — Just Another Buzz Word?.  [Local PDF copy].
August 2003:	"Agile" Change Management — From First Principles to Best Practices.  [Local PDF copy].
July 2003:	Patterns for Agile SCM.  [Local PDF copy].
June 2003:	Characteristics of the Agile SCM Solution.  [Local PDF copy].
May 2003:	The Need for Agility in SCM.  [Local PDF copy].
April 2003:	Agile Configuration Management Environments

Other Publications

• Steve wrote an article, Breaking with Tradition: Add an Agile Twist to your SCM Process, by Steve Berczuk in the Feb 2006 Issue of Better Software Magazine.
• Steve gave a class, Software Configuration Management in Context at the Software Test & Performance Conference December 7-9, 2004 in Baltimore, MD.
• Robert Cowham gave a presentation (which he prepared with Brad), The Agile Difference for SCM at a meeting of the British Computer Society on October 12, 2004.
• Steve gave a Tutorial, Effective Teamwork and Practical Integration: Software Configuration Management in Context at SD Best Practices in Boston, MA in September 2004. from the class.
• Steve discusses the SCM Pattern Language in Context Is Key: The Power of Pattern Languages in the September 2003 issue of the Cutter IT Journal. Volume 19 Number 9. Theme issue on Patterns in Software Development, guest editor Joshua Kerievsky.
• Agile Codeline Management by Steve Berczuk. A StickyMinds original article. Published May 30, 2003. [Version in PDF format.]
• Pragmatic Software Configuration Management by Steve Berczuk. In the March/April 2003 issue of IEEE Software Magazine.
• Software Configuration Management Resources, by Steve Berczuk. A Reference Point article in the January/February 2003 issue of STQE Magazine (Volume 5 # 1).
• We wrote a sidebar on Agile SCM for the book Configuration Management Principles and Practice.

Moderated Discussions

• Brad and Steve facilitated a round table discussion on Agile Software Configuration Management on StickyMinds.com from June 2 to July 12, 2003.

You can also find related articles on Steve Berczuk's publications page and the documents link on Brad Appleton's page.