Stories on this page are the outcomes of various community initiatives and interactions. Since the community is driven voluntarily, passionate Mindtree Minds decide the community objective, identify gaps, chart out a roadmap, leverage different techniques and intervention models that benefit other like-minded members. This also helps them network with each other, stay connected, make friends and build trust.
We did a community survey and found out that 23% saw a great progress in the way community initiative has evolved in 2011. 8% said the community activities have made a direct impact in their work/project and it was a life saver for them. 47% noticed a positive impact (personally/professionally) on themselves as well as others.
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People understood the need for good configuration management in projects but never learnt it the way it needed to be applied. Stories ranged from, “Clients look up to us to own and streamline this complex landscape” to “We were struggling. Client escalated. We brought in an expert. Build stabilized.” There were fewer experts than we needed. Developers were not motivated enough to learn configuration management skills since the usage of the skills by project managers were not articulated properly. This also stemmed from the belief that configuration managers are not needed full time on projects.
A concerned community member thought:
“Why can’t we support projects to set it up right the first time?” Or even “How can we identify (and recognize) experts in different build automation tools and sustain an ongoing interaction around this topic?”
The objective of this engagement was to provide a detailed overview on how to approach and implement select areas in Configuration Management with a large project serving as context. The series was divided into 6 main areas, as outlined below. Scope, scenarios and takeaways were identified for each.
The engagement lasted around 90 minutes each with hands-on demonstration of how a module/aspect works.
The event series got an overwhelming response. Approximately 240 members participated and got the opportunity to get insights in build automation. This included live examples & scenarios. Also, they were exposed to tools & techniques of how to do successful build automation in projects – irrespective of project size. Post event around 21 documents and 15 blogs were published. In addition 9 SMEs who used different configuration management tools were identified and felicitated. Some of the specific outcomes were:
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