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Say what you will about Microsoft, they know how to successfully build and release software. Vince Maraia has been a key member of the build teams for many of their major software releases over the last fifteen years. In this book he distills the wisdom he has learned about building software, while also setting it into the context of related steps, including configuration management and deployment. While he uses Microsoft tools and case studies from within Mic… More >>
The Build Master: Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices
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#1 by Yves Dolce on April 9, 2010 - 5:53 am
What can I say? I review a big part of the book as someone with very little experience in that topic and I was able to understand it!
I don’t think there are that many books taking that approach when talking about the building step so, thank you Vince!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Mechele Gruhn on April 9, 2010 - 8:30 am
This book is a great look into Software Configuration Management from someone who’s been in the trenches. If you are new or experienced with SCM, this book will provide you with new information.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Venkatesh Ramakrishnan on April 9, 2010 - 11:04 am
This book can be of immense value if your organization doesn’t have a mature Configuration Management process and supporting build procedure.
I was hoping to learn best practices around practical challenges we face. The book fell short of expectation, may be I was expecting much more from someone who played the Build Master role for a very complex software.
No doubt this book will increase the awareness around a critical process area for organizations struggling to manage multiple streams of activities, but don’t search for the silver-bullets from this book.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Mark P. Neyer on April 9, 2010 - 1:30 pm
This book is simply awful. It offers virtually no useful advice, and is full of completely obvious recommendations. The only thing I gleaned from reading this book is that disabling virus protection on your build machines speeds up the build time.
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by D. Marshall on April 9, 2010 - 2:36 pm
The book provides an excellent insight into the Microsoft organization’s Software Configuration Management system. However, either the publisher or the author made many printing mistakes in the figures, letters were either left out or replaced with wrong letters in mass.
Other than the printing errors, the book is excellent.
Rating: 4 / 5