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This page contains links to resources regarding the formal change management practice. The formal change management practice is an explicit approach for controlling changes in a project. It covers the process of coordinating the implementation of product changes in a planned, authorized, logical, and orderly fashion.

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There are many materials on change management. The following links are good starting points for you to get a more comprehensive understanding of this topic.

White papers and articles  

White papers and articles are good starting points if you would like to know about change management, the benefits of having change management in your organization, and the kind of value add that it provides to the business. These articles provide insight about how changes are managed in the tool, and the impact on the overall application development lifecycle.

• What is Software Configuration Management (link)
• The Challenges Of Software Change Management In Today's Siloed IT Organizations (link)
• Modernizing enterprise application development with integrated change, build, and release management (link)
• Integrated change and release management: a defect resolution use-case scenario (link)
• Build and release process automation solutions for software development (link)
• ROI case study: Applying IBM Rational ClearQuest and IBM Rational ClearCase for Regulatory Compliance (link)
• Rational ClearQuest Application Lifecycle Management Packages for ClearQuest 7.0.1 (link)
• IBM change and configuration management for small teams (link)

IBM Rational software tools

IBM® Rational® ClearCase® and IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® are the main tools that provide an end-to-end solution for change management. You can learn about the ClearCase and ClearQuest tools by reading following material.

• Software configuration management (link)
• Software change management (link)

IBM offers a pre-published change management practice for organizations that are interested in adapting it. This practice provides tool guidance, concepts, tasks to be performed, and artifacts to be produced. IBM® Rational® Method Composer is a tool to customize and tailor the processes for a project based on its size, its complexity level, and your organizational maturity.

To learn more about how Rational Method Composer helps you customize your project processes, click here.

Training

IBM offers many training programs on ClearCase and ClearQuest. Here are just a few of the courses available.

ClearCase

• SCM210: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearCase for Developers (link) (Web-based training)
• SCM215: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearCase UCM for Developers (link) (Web-based training)
• RS501/SCM270: Essentials of Rational ClearCase for Windows (link) (Instructor-led classroom training)
• YS501/SCM270: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearCase for Windows, V7.0 (link) (Instructor-led online)
• RS523/SCM275: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearCase UCM for Windows, V7.0 (link) (Instructor-led online)
• RS602/SCM470: Mastering IBM Rational ClearCase Administration for Windows, V7.0 (link) (Instructor-led classroom training)
• RS603/SCM470: Mastering IBM Rational ClearCase Administration for Windows, V7.0 (link) (Instructor-led online)

ClearQuest

• SCM110: Principles of Defect and Change Tracking with IBM Rational ClearQuest (link) (Web-based training)
• SCM205: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearQuest (link) (Web-based training)
• RS202/SCM290: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearQuest, V7.0 (link) (Instructor-led classroom training)
• RS203/SCM290: Essentials of IBM Rational ClearQuest, V7.0 (link) (Instructor-led online)
• RS631/SCM490: Mastering Rational ClearQuest Administration (link) (Instructor-led classroom training)
• RS641/SCM495: Mastering Rational ClearQuest MultiSite Administration (link) (Instructor-led classroom training)

Useful links

• Rational ClearCase forum (link)
• Rational ClearQuest forum (link)
• Agile Configuration Management for Large Organizations (link)
• Compliance-Driven Development: How IBM Rational change management solutions can help companies address compliance requirements (link)
• Simplifying development through activity-based change management (link)
• Successfully managing geographically distributed development (link)
• ClearCase Glossary (link)

References and books

• Bellagio, David and Milligan, Tom. Software Configuration Management Strategies and IBM Rational ClearCase: A Practical Introduction, 2nd Edition (link). IBM Press, May 2005.
• Buckley, Christian D. and Pulsipher, Darren W. The Art of ClearCase Deployment: The Secrets to Successful Implementation (link). Addison Wesley.
• Wahli, Ueli; Brown, Jennie; Teinonen, Matti; and Trulsson, Leif. Software Configuration Management: A Clear Case for IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest UCM (link). IBM Redbooks, December 2004.
• Buckley, Christian D.; Pulsipher, Darren W.; and Scott, Kendall. Implementing IBM Rational ClearQuest: An End-to-End Deployment Guide (link). IBM Press, August 2006.

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