RESOURCES for Configuration Management

General

• CM Crossroads
• CM Wiki web site
• SCM Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) from comp.software.config-mgmt
• The newsgroup misc.business.records-mgmt also sometimes has related discussions.
• My tagged collection of CM articles that I organized at my links library at Connotea (RSS feed available)

Process/Software Engineering

• SEI (Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute, developers of the Capability Maturity Model).
• CMM Wiki (pros and cons)

Tools

• Subversion
  • Subversion blog
  • TortoiseSVN site and blog
• CVS
  • Wiki discussion about CVS a.k.a. Concurrent Versions System
  • The newsgroup gnu.cvs.help
  • an on-line tutorial on CVS: open source oriented, but also applicable to proprietary development
  • a much shorter introductory tutorial
• Steve Vance has an interesting Perforce-oriented paper and slide presentation on branching.
• PVCS vendor website
• Many more tools in the General links above

Groups

• The Configuration Management Working Group used to meet in Northern Virginia once a month.
• DC SPIN