What This Book Is About

As I search Microsoft's job database, looking through 397 job titles, none of them contains the words Software Configuration Management. When I look at our acronym or glossary lookup tool and search for SCM, the results come back with Source Code Manager or Supply Chain Management, pronounced SCuM. It is no wonder that the SCM term is used infrequently at Microsoft. I know that I would not like to be referred to as a SCuM manager or champion.

Of course, I am being facetious and picky about the semantics here because SCM is a widely used industry term. It just isn't used a lot at Microsoft. The only explanation I can think of is that the processes of SCM at Microsoft are broken down to specific tasks, and SCM is too broad a term to be used to describe these processes on a daily basis. So, despite the lack of the use of the term SCM at Microsoft, that is what this book is focused on since that is what we live and breathe every day.