Fortified Bikesheds: Institutional Amnesia

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Institutional Amnesia

Great story, very relevant to software engineering: Institutional memory and reverse smuggling

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Story So Far

The goal of the first batch of posts is to describe a software build and release process which assumes that builds are not necessarily reproducible and expensive to perform, and also assumes a large number of independent development teams all working on some grand piece of software.

Good release management starts at the source, so the first few postings deal about source code control and change management, and how to mine the change data correctly.

Once we can reliably build stuff, we need to manage the build products, the artifacts, so they can be reused, tested and released.