The challenges facing software development teams are mounting. Business pressures drive teams to address new requirements quickly and deploy that software reliably from development to operations.
Corporate governance standards increasingly require audit trails for any changes to a system. Traditional forms of collaboration, such as the face-to-face discussion, are vanishing as teams are distributed geographically. Nowadays a change management system and process is necessary for the productivity of development teams. It can give every member of the team answers to the “Five Ws” regardless of their location or role in the project:
A change management process that answers these questions keeps the development team aligned to the same goals, and aids rather than burdens the developers; it will go a long way toward addressing the challenges teams face.
Every Change Management System provides a unique ID to track the changes. submitted by IBM® Business Services Composition Studio. Governance System uses this tracking ID as to communicate with the External Change Management System.
Governance Manager provides integration with IBM's Rational ClearQuest change management system. Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest are powerful change management solutions that enhance the productivity of J2EE development teams. The rich activity tracking provided by Rational ClearQuest ensures that everyone on the team knows what to do, and it makes assessing overall project status easy.
Governance Management System provides a way to:
Whenever the External Change Management System is enabled, the Governance Manager displays the Pending status for all the interactions with the Change Management System. The Administrator can change the status as Approved or Rejected as defined in the application properties file, which is shipped with the Governance application during the provisioning of the SOBA Governance Manager at the organization level.