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From: "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt@tincat-group.com>
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Subject: Re: cdt
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"Alan" <not.me@uhuh.rcn.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt@tincat-group.com> wrote in message
> news:c9vhg4$bsg$1@news.netins.net...
> > "mAsterdam" <mAsterdam@vrijdag.org> wrote in message
> > news:40c32cad$0$33919$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> > > Here are some proposed changes to the glossary from recent
> > > discussions.
> > >
> > > Please take only one or two items at a time for easy
> > > harvesting :-)
> > <snip>
> > ADDITIONS (comments welcome)
> >
> > > [change management]
> > > The organization of data within a database can and will
> > > change with circumstances. A DBMS should provide
> > > facilities for changing the underlying structure
> > > without affecting what is already stored.
> > > For example, you can add a column to a table without losing
> > > what is already there.
> >
> > I'll start with this one.  There are several similar terms:
> maintainability,
> > agility, flexibility, adaptive that are all more obvious choices for
> talking
> > about the data organization with repect to changes.  I have always used
> the
> > term "Change Management" to be a process employed by people.  Is this
> really
> > an industry-accepted use of the phrase?  --dawn
> >
> >
>
> I would say this it is an industry-accepted phrase. There are "change
> management" tools, for example. We have a "change management" process at
> work (not that anyone actually pays any attention to it, but I digress...)

Yes, there are change management tools and change management processes, but
this definition suggests that the organization of the data is called "change
management".  --dawn