White Papers

Agile ALM: Impossible or Best of Both?

While agile principles put emphasis on team interaction, customer collaboration and responsiveness to change, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) often evokes associations with high degrees of formality and top-down process control. 

Read this white paper to learn about important challenges and available solutions when applying agile principles across the development lifecycle.

Why Integrate Project and Configuration Management?

Agile practices put emphasis on faster delivery, which often results in more short term planning and frequent rescheduling. Development managers thus need to keep their projects much more release ready than ever before.

PureCM Professional makes this possible by linking planning to configuration management, automating parallel development and facilitating work with feature branches.

This white paper is also very insightful for existing PureCM users looking at migrating to projects with the 2010-1 release.

Agile SCM Adoption - 10 Essential Practices

Agile development practices have gained wide acceptance throughout the software industry. But which are the critical success factors that drive the business benefits of an agile implementation? According to a recent survey, proper Software Configuration Management (SCM) is one of them. 

Learn about the 10 essential SCM practices that are key to an agile implementation, regardless of the size of your company. These practises provide you with the necessary flexibility to work effectively  in agile environments – without increasing the burden on software developers.

Remote Development Considerations

Developers might spend a significant proportion of their time developing outside their offices, either connected via VPN or even disconnected. Sometimes, a network might be unavailable, cutting the connection between server and client.

Read this white paper to learn how PureCM allows you to keep on working remotely – both with and without a server connection.