Who Should Read This Book


The target audience for this book is SCM teams at any company that ships software internally or externally. This includes the people outlined in the next sections.

Information Technology (IT) Managers

If you develop or deploy software to departments within your company or manage the servers that host your developer's source code trees, this book will help you succeed in being more efficient and robust.

Software Development and Testing Managers

Because you are the one who implements and uses these processes, it would be best to read the explanations behind the processes firsthand. This will help you drive the adoption of these processes within your group or company.

Build Teams and Build Managers

Being a builder at heart and spending many years in build labs, I wrote this book as a collection of what I have learned. When software is shipped, everyone seems to have specific tasks or jobs: Developers write the code, testers test the code, program or product managers try to figure out what goes into the product, and executives sell it. So who makes sure that the flow of the product does not get interrupted? When there is a block or showstopper, who is the person who will jump through fire hoops to get things started again? It is the build or integration team, which I see as the "heart" of the product and everything else is the "soul." Because this large responsibility falls under the build team, and the most successful groups have a very solid build team, the topics in this book will help you keep the "flow" going.

Technical Project and Product Managers

If you want to be able to accurately predict when your product will be ready for release and learn the details of how a requested application feature goes from cradle to grave, this book will provide an overview of the whole process. You can work with the developers and testers on how to merge these recommendations into your current process and understand the language or lingo.

Anyone Interested in a Microsoft Case Study

Although this book is not intended to be a case study in the traditional sense, such as presenting the steps that Microsoft uses to build software and then analyze them to death, you can view this book as an example of a successful software company and the lessons it has learned over the years, with a lot of insight into why Microsoft chose a particular path.



The Build Master(c) Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices
The Build Master: Microsofts Software Configuration Management Best Practices
ISBN: 0321332059
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 186

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