Archive for the ‘Industry’ Category

Two Conferences

Austin Hastings (that’s me) will be speaking at two conferences coming up in October. Both presentations will be focusing on LDM.
First, there’s the Telelogic User Group Conference 2008, in Austin, Texas. That’s obviously focused on Telelogic, and on CM Synergy and Telelogic Change, or whatever it’s called this week. Since I spent a fair amount [...]

CM Crossroads ‘upgrade’

CM Crossroads is pretty much the place to go for CM-related conversation. A few weeks ago they announced an ‘upgrade’ to the site: there would be a few days of down-time, and then things would be back to normal.
In fact, the upgrade (and the site outage) lasted for 10 days. The new site is (I [...]

How do I review a SCM tool?

A while back, I wrote a review of Guiffy SureMerge for CM Crossroads. I even wrote about the process, here.
I’d like to think that I’m the guy for writing SCM tool reviews. I’ve been a vendor rep, so I know where a whole bunch of the bodies are buried. I am independent, so I don’t [...]

Two LDM Articles

April is the month for LDM at CM Crossroads. They published two articles, one a case study describing the background in which it was developed, the other a technical introduction.
The case study is here, and the technical details article is here.
I’m eventually going to incorporate LDM info as pages here on Doing Better. But [...]

La Mort Du CM (and other predictions)

It’s the start of a new year, and that means predictions for the future. Not content with a twelve-month window, I’ll go out on a limb with some longer-term prognostication. Also, of course, some suggestions on what to do when I’m right.