SCM War Stories

SCM War Stories are a collection of software engineering anti-patterns that SCM professionals have all experienced. Hopefully, these stories have long been fixed and never again to be repeated.

To help in that endeavor, we have linked each story to an accompanying software development anti-pattern and best practices. The end goal is to substantiate a set of SCM Best Practices that can benefit all development teams and organizations.

If you have a war story of your own please send it to us. We would gladly consider including it if it is in our theme. Please include your best practice that fixed the problem.

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War Story Name	War Story Description	SCM Best Practice
Circumventing Build Process	This happens when people get together and decide that the schedule is more important than software quality.	Automated Build Process