About the Authors

Bob Aiello has more than twenty-five years of prior experience as a technical manager at leading financial services firms, with company-wide responsibility for CM and DevOps. He often provides hands-on technical support for enterprise source code management tools, SOX/Cobit compliance, build engineering, continuous integration, and automated application deployment. He serves on the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) management board and served as the technical editor for CM Crossroads for more than 15 years. Bob is also editor of the Agile ALM DevOps journal and coauthor of Configuration Management Best Practices (Addison-Wesley, 2011).

Leslie Sachs is a New York State certified school psychologist and COO of CM Best Practices Consulting. She has more than twenty years of experience in psychology, intervening in diverse clinical and business settings to improve individual and group functioning. Leslie is assistant editor of the Agile ALM DevOps journal and coauthor of Configuration Management Best Practices.