AccuRev Inc. announced that Europe’s leading content management solutions provider, Mediasurface, standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software change and configuration management (SCCM). Development teams in the United Kingdom and Bangalore, India, as a result, now work as a set of integrated teams for managing Feature Driven Development, its agile approach to manage the software release process.

Mediasurface had been using another SCCM solution that wouldn’t allow them to integrate the new Bangalore team the way they wanted to work. Developers complained that they were required to run scripts to accomplish their tasks, even though they were working with an enterprise SCCM system. The fact they had to check out items before knowing exactly which changes they wanted to make before committing them to the repository, they didn’t like it neither.

As a stop-gap alternative for a new project but it proved “clunky,” an open source version control solution was selected, when considered with all the necessary plug-ins and third party add-ons required to make it work in their environment. AccuRev, as a result, was evaluated against the same set of criteria that included requirements for offshore collaboration, parallel development and the ability to enforce a well-defined and successful Feature Driven agile software development process.

“Fully integrating the Bangalore and UK operations was a critical requirement for the business. As the Bangalore team was new to our business and our software, the solution had to be easy to implement, learn and use, but still powerful enough to manage our software release process. AccuRev has quickly delivered a very elegant way to automate our Feature Driven agile development process so that both feature enhancements and issues from existing customers permeate into previous versions running in parallel. Our Bangalore team now works with our UK engineers as if a single seamless team,” declared Engineering Manager, Mediasurface, Tahir Hussein.