change-management

My organization's main project went live on Monday. That was my third day here. Now that I've been here almost a week, I'm tasked with creating a change management plan for the maintenance of the application and preparation for phase 2, which will commence "someday." We're a Microsoft shop but open-minded. I'm looking for some suggestions on CM techniques and especially tools that will help with this. I'm familiar with ITIL and I've been considering how its concept of CM could apply to this project, but admittedly this one is a lot smaller than I'm used to (< 100 users versus thousands). I'm

I have been tasked with developing a solution that tracks changes to a database. For updates I need to capture: date of update old value new value field affected person doing change record id table record is in For deletes: date of delete person doing delete The title/description/id of record deleted. The tables I am tracking changes on all have a title or description field. I'd like to capture this before the record is deleted. table record was in For inserts: date of insert person doing change record id table record is in I've thought of a few ways to do this: I am using stored procedures

Say, I made many changes to my code and only need to commit a few of those changes. Is there a way to do it in mercurial? I know that darcs has a feature like this one. I know hg transplant can do this between branches, but I need something like this for committing code in the present branch and not when adding change sets from some other branch. Kurt Schelfthout MQ as Chad mentioned are one way. There's also more lightweight solutions: Record extension which works roughly the same way as darcs record. It's distributed with mercurial. Shelve extension which allows you to "shelve" certain