Monday, 6 of September of 2010

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How to Improve Synergy CM Sync Performance

When controlling very large projects in Synergy, two configuration parameters can be updated to improve the Sync operation performance

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How to mandate Synergy CM Task association to Change Request

Development teams which are practicing the task based approach in Synergy and using the Change Synergy for tracing new bugs and enhancements might want to require a relation between CRs and tasks. Each task that is created for a developer have some origin – it is either a new enhancement to develop, a bug to fix or some other action item to perform in the product.
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Enterprise Architecture – Alignment of Business goals and IT

Enterprise architects need to bring together information on a variety of subjects, including applications, data (structured and unstructured), technology of various kinds, interfaces, business processes and organization structures. The architects need to understand and represent the relationships between all of this information and to communicate it to their stakeholders.

 

Enterprise Architecture deals with the improvement of bridging the gaps between a company business goals and its support and implementation by the enterprise IT systems.

IT plays a key enabling role in business processes. It is crusial that the IT systems support and improve the organization performance rather than delay business initiatives and capabilities.

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Enterprise Architecture for bridging Business and IT gap (Heb version)

Enterprise architects need to bring together information on a variety of subjects, including applications, data (structured and unstructured), technology of various kinds, interfaces, business processes and organization structures. The architects need to understand and represent the relationships between all of this information and to communicate it to their stakeholders.

ארכיטקטורה ארגונית עוסקת בשיפור התיאום וגישור הפערים בין המטרות והיעדים העסקיים של החברה ובין תמיכתן ומימושן על ידי מערכות המידע בארגון.

מכיוון שמערכות המידע ממלאות תפקיד מרכזי ומאפשר בתהליכים העסקיים של הארגון קיימת חשיבות גדולה לווידוא כי מערכות המידע הנוכחיות ובמיוחד העתידיות תומכות ומשפרות את ביצועי הארגון ולא מעכבות יוזמות ויכולות עסקיות.

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Task Work-Item Configuration Management vs. File Version based cm

Traditional “file based” configuration management systems tools only capture the individual file modifications and have no grasp of the relationships and dependencies between several changed files. “Task-based” configuration management (CM) provides this capability allowing developers to operate in terms of logical changes rather than individual file versions.

In the process of developing and maintaining software, developers will typically create or modify a large number of objects like source code, images, documents and binaries. A project might include hundreds of changes a day to produce a final release.
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Pros and Cons in customizing a software tool

Your organization has decided to implement a new enterprise software, the product is selected and the implementation begins, the sales person promised the moon, the reality is more, how to put it… gray. The first thought that comes to one’s mind is to modify the software to support organizational needs. This might solve the problems or it can lead to an inevitable failure to complete the implementation.

Your organization has decided to implement a new enterprise software, the product is selected and the implementation begins, the sales person promised the moon, the reality is more, how to put it… gray.

Slowly but surely people realize that certain aspects of the software are not aligned with the company’s business process and practices.

End users are starting to reject the software and the implementation begins to fidget.

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