5. Planning for software configuration management

Your CTO walks into your office and drops a signed purchase order for 250 licenses of ClearCase, ClearQuest, and the associated MultiSite products onto your desk. “Here, I’ve solved your CM problem,” he says. He smiles and walks out.

With luck, this is not the first you have heard of these products, but it is a scenario we have seen. In the chapters that follow we help guide you through the rest of the story—the details of planning and implementing a Rational CM rollout.