How We Help
Welcome to Bob Aiello’s CM Best Practices Consulting (CMBPC)
CMBPC started as a small boutique configuration management consulting practice. Today we have a larger team and we provide a much broader array of services including:
1. Hands-on DevOps engineering including systems and applications delivery pipelines as well as infrastructure as code on-prem or on cloud service providers (e.g. Azure, GCP and AWS).
2. Secure infrastructure based upon ephemeral self-healing platforms including Kubernetes.
3. Software process engineering often focused on meeting regulatory requirements including SOC2, SOX (Section 404) among others.
4. Traditional configuration management (CM) including securing chain of custody, change management and secure software baseline development.
5. Coaching throughout the software and systems development lifecycle.
6. Accessibility consulting to build systems which inherently meet the requirements of section 508, WCAG and the American with Disabilities Act (ADA).
7. Leveraging AI, LLM and MCPs to drive your organization’s success.
We are hands-on and technical. Our approach also employs applied industrial psychology best practices to help you address the people and process objectives such as developing a healthy DevOps culture.
We lead your organization on the journey to implementing Configuration Management, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and DevOps best practices with a strong focus on meeting regulatory requirements while also accelerating velocity, quality and productivity.
Bob led the international team that wrote the IEEE 2675 DevOps (now ISO/EIA/IEEE 32675) international industry standard along with the emerging IEEE SRE (P2675.1), Observability (P2675.2) and planned DevSecOps and platform standards. Bob coauthored the P828 Configuration Management standard and now leads the IEEE P828 Configuration Management working group. Bob has written books on Configuration Management Best Practices, ALM and DevOps.
Bob is the consultant that you need when you have a regulatory agency breathing down your neck. Work with us and we will help you create the lean IT controls that meet regulatory requirements while also accelerating your velocity, quality and productivity.
How can we help you today?
We have helped many organizations assess and improve their CM and DevOps practices. Contact us to learn how we can help you!
“Robert is a dedicated professional who manages complex projects across numerous platforms and operating systems. He is a key contributor at CM Crossroads and possesses tremendous technical and communications skills across the IT industry. His personal commitment to the success of every project he is tasked to work on is outstanding!”
“I met Bob when he was brought in to Bear Stearns to take charge of the integration process and, later, the firm’s source code management system – a critical pillar of our systems, and one in which process is vital, but which frankly had not previously received as much attention as it required. Bob revolutionized our approach, creating not only a process from scratch, but painstakingly and patiently educating the firm’s IT community in both it and in the product we used at the time (Clearcase).”
“I’ve known Bob for a number of years now and in that time I have always found him to be a man of great principles and honor. It was with great pleasure that I found he had accepted the position of EiC at CM Crossroads. Bob will be exceptional in this role as he is very knowledgeable of the subject matter (CM), is well rounded all aspects of ALM and security and is very reasonable and easy to work with.”