An MKS White Paper
By David J. Martin
Vice President - Product Management

www.mks.com

Abstract
Software development in Fortune 1000 enterprises is generally a fragmented and localized activity at the best of times. The left hand rarely knows what the right hand is doing. While it is true that some companies have adopted a single software configuration management and change management solution for their entire organization, these are more the exception than the rule. Today, a survey of most Fortune 1000 companies will reveal numerous geographically distributed development teams using different tools and processes to manage their software development. In more decentralized organizations, purchasing decisions on software development tools often take place in isolation from other groups using criteria that affect only the group making the decision. Technology compatibility with all the other software development teams throughout the organization is rarely considered. The most common reason given for this is that each group has established their own processes that are too difficult, or too comfortable, to change at this point in the game.

Making the decision to standardize on a single SCM and change management solution across the enterprise, along with common processes and development methodologies, has important benefits for the organization as a whole, but also for individual software development teams within the organization. This white paper will make the case for standardization and then provide recommended solutions for minimizing the pain that comes with changing software development tools and associated processes midstream. It will set out an industry accepted method for rolling out these tools and processes, allowing individual development teams to harmonize their development and delivery of software applications, while retaining certain unique and necessary elements of their processes.

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