Moving out of the summer and soon into the fall. While on the road with presentations, book signings, and contracts, I am hearing from IT/Business professionals still concerned with economic recovery, training, and the outsourcing issue.
The Significance of Configuration Management for Project/Product Management
As a Best Practice Process, Configuration Management is beginning to get the emphasis it requires. Yes, at the start of the project and beginning at requirements. RayAnn Publishers has published a book that puts those that use it as a reference and guide ahead of the game as indicated by a PMI project in 2004.
- A project to develop and publish a Configuration Management (CM)
Practice Standard for 2004.
Configuration Management (CM) addresses the composition of a project, documentation defining the project, and other data that supports the project. CM is a baseline and requirements management process that provides managed control to all phases of a project life cycle. CM is a management discipline that applies technical and administrative direction to the development, production, and life cycle support of a project. In achieving this, CM is a management process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a project’s performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, development, and operational information
throughout its life…”
-cited from PMI website
Eddie R. Williams
RayAnn Enterprise Publishers
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