Teamwork and Configuration Management: Some Patterns1

Coordination and communication are two important parts of a successful development process. Social and organizational constraints have an effect on the development process. By thinking of software configuration management(SCM) in the context of how the SCM process helps team members work together we can apply SCM more effectively. These issues are important regardless of language used, but these patterns come out of my experience is in doing C++ development. This paper presents three configuration management patterns and shows how they relate to organizational patterns.