Publications

Software Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork, Practical Integration

Events and Presentations

See my events page for presentations and related materials.

Agility, Agile SCM, Patterns and Pattern Languages

• Iterations in the October 2008 issue of the Agile Journal.
• Feedback without Fear the Last Word of the May 2007 issue of Better Software magazine.
• The Team that Walked Through Wallks in the Fall 2006 issue of Agile Development Magazine published by the Agile Alliance.
• Private Workspaces: Where Development Process Meets CM Process in the March 2006 edition of the Configuration Management Journal.
• Breaking with Tradition, Add an Agile Twist to your SCM Process by Steve Berczuk in the Feb 2006 Issue of Better Software Magazine.
• The Importance of Building Earnestly by Steve Berczuk, Robert Cowham & Brad Appleton in Crossroads News, February 2005. [ Local Copy].
• The Illusion of Control by Steve Berczuk, Robert Cowham & Brad Appleton in Crossroads News, December 2004. [ Local Copy].
• Patterns and Software Configuration Management by Steve Berczuk,Steve Konieczka & Brad Appleton in Crossroads News, April 2004. [ Local Copy].
• Applying Agile SCM to Databases by Steve Berczuk,Steve Konieczka & Brad Appleton in Crossroads News, January 2004. [ Local Copy]
• Context Is Key: The Power of Pattern Languagesin the Cutter IT JournalSeptember 2003 Issue. Volume 19 Number 9. Theme issue on Patterns in Software Development, guest editor Joshua Kerievsky.
• Patterns for Agile SCM by Steve Berczuk,Steve Konieczka & Brad Appleton in Crossroads News, July, 2003. [Version in PDF format.]
• Agile Codeline Management. A StickyMindsoriginal article. Published May 30, 2003. [Version in PDF format.]
• Pragmatic Software Configuration Management by Steve Berczuk. In the March/April 2003 issue of IEEE SoftwareMagazine. Please see the copyright notice.
• Software Configuration Management Resources, a Reference Pointarticle in the January/February 2003 issue of STQE Magazine(Volume 5 # 1).
• Brad Appleton and I wrote an appendixon Agile Software Configuration Management, for Anne Mette Jonassen Hass' book Configuration Management Principles and Practice .
• The book Configuration Management Patterns: Effective Teamwork and Practical Integration , which I wrote with Brad Appleton.
• Reliable Codelines . Submitted to the The 2001 Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference.
• Steve Berczuk and Bob Hanmer (2000). Introduction I. Pattern Languages of Program Design 4. Edited by Neil Harrison, et al. Reading, MA, Addison Wesley Longman.
• Getting Ready to Work: Patterns for a Developer's Workspace . In the Proceedingsof the 7th. Pattern Languages of Programs Conference. Washington University Technical Report number wucs-00-29.
• Software Reconstruction: Patterns for Reproducing Software Builds by Ralph Cabrera, Brad Appleton, and Steve Berczuk. In the proceedings of the 1999 Pattern Languages of Programming Conference.
• Streamed Lines, Branching Patterns For Parallel Software Developmentwith Brad Appleton, Ralph Cabrera, and Robert Orenstein. In the proceedings of the 1998 Pattern Languages of Programs Conference. Washington University Technical Report #WUCS-98-25.
• Teamwork and Configuration Management In the July/Aug 97 C++ Report(Vol 9 #7 pp28 ff)
• Guest Editor, Theory and Practice of Object Systems . Special Issue on Patterns. Volume 2 Number 1 (1996).
• Configuration Management Patterns . In the proceedings of the 1996 Pattern Languages of ProgramsConference. Washington University Technical Report# WUCS-97-07.
• Organizational Multiplexing: Patterns for Processing Satellite Telemetry with Distributed Teams . (Also available in Postscript). Published in Pattern Languages of Program Design 2.
• Patterns for Separating Assembly and Processing in Pattern Languages of Program Design, Douglas Schmidt& James O. CoplienEditors. Addison Wesley: Reading MA, 1995. ISBN: 0-201-60734-4. A postscriptversion is also available.
• Finding Solutions Through Pattern Languages in the December 1994 IEEE Computer . (Vol 27 #12 pages 75-76).

Agile SCM Columns

Brad Appleton, Robert Cowham, and I, write a monthly column on Agile SCM in Crossroads Newson the the CM Crossroads site. The complete list is on SCMPatterns.com site. Listed here are the columns where I was the primary author.

• May 2008: Agile Release Management .
• July 2003: Patterns for Agile SCM .

Other Articles

• Dirk Riehle and I wrote a couple of papers on ways to classify methods in C++ that are available on Dirk Riehle's Web site.
• A Review of A System of Patternsby Buschmann, Meunier, Roherrt, Sommerlad, and Stal, in the March 1997 issue of Distributed Object Computing (Vol 1 #2 pp 61 -62)
• A review of Grady Booch's Object Solutionswas published in the July 1996 issue of Object Magazine(Vol 6 #4 pp 83-84).
• A review of Robert Martin's Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications using the Booch Methodwas published in the October 1995 issue of Object Magazine. (Vol 5 # 6 pp 96 - 97).
• A review of Peter Coad's book: Object Models: Strategies, Patterns and Applications, published in Object Oriented Systems(Volume 2 # 3 September 1995).

Facilitated Discussions

• Brad Appletonand I facilitated a round table discussion on Agile Software Configuration Managementon StickyMinds.comfrom June 2 to July 12, 2003.

For interesting reading that I didn't necessarily write, also see a list of some of my favorite books.

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