Your Organization's Version Control System is a Production Environment Thursday, July 2, 2009

If you use version control, work item tracking, defect tracking, project management, or any other system which stores data related to software development activities, you must be consider these systems production environments, and treat them as such. Even if only developers access these systems, they should be subject to the same maintenance and scrutiny as your LOB money makers. Failure to heed this advice can and will cost your organization money and time eventually - not if but when.