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Jirong Hu (1.5k●9●290●258) | asked Nov 18 '12, 7:49 p.m.
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I am asked to setup an enterprise SCM services in the organization, and I am starting with the strategy document. So basically it's about what we need to do and how we are going to do it. The first question I have is: what shall we call it today, SCM or ALM or what?

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Jirong

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Fariz Saracevic (904●6●13) | answered Nov 18 '12, 10:09 p.m.
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Jirong, it all depends how wide you want/need to go with the strategy document. Software Change Management is one of the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) capabilities and usually, strategy documents are a broader in its content. They provide vision where an enterprise should aim for from multiple ALM aspects and then you outline guidance broken down in number of phases.

Hence, I suggest to write an ALM strategy document with enterprise SCM services as phase 1.
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Jirong Hu commented Nov 20 '12, 8:52 p.m.

What are the necessary processes need to be implemented in SCM? I have the followings in mind:


1. Source Code Version Control
2. Change Control
3. Build and Deployment Automation
4. Code Promotion
5. Release Management

A couple of questions:

1. For item 1, many call it Configuration Management. But the overall is called SCM already, so I just want to make it clear.

2. Change Control I am referring to change request or enhancement request control.

3. Code Promotion I mean promoting from DEV to SIT to UAT. So what shall I put in the Release Management process?

Is there a better list of main processes to describe SCM?

Thanks
Jirong

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