Configuration Management

Principles ancd Practice

Anne Mette Jonassen Hass

370 pages, parution le 13/02/2003

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Résumé

Configuration management (CM) is an important, but often neglected, practice that allows application developers and project managers to better identify potential problems, manage changes, and track the progress of software projects. An effective CM strategy—one that adheres to the practice's complexity while harnessing its depth—can be the cornerstone of fast, flexible development. However, CM practitioners often rely too heavily on commercial CM tools, and fail to understand the concept as a whole. While CM is not an easy discipline, it need not be a difficult one.

Configuration Management Principles and Practice explains the elements and benefits of a sound CM strategy and shows how to put that strategy into action. Through configuration examples and recommendations drawn from the author's considerable experience, this practical guide will help readers to better manage and deliver projects.

Key topic coverage includes:

Incorporating CM into the overall development process
Relating test cases to requirements and tracking, assessing, and reporting on testing
Tracing product changes
Applying CM in different environments, including agile, iterative, integrated-product, and sequential development methods
Employing CM in projects, large and small, for safety-critical, composite, multiplatform, and multivariant systems
Managing multisite development
Serving cross-organizational functions
Integrating different CM tools
Improving CM processes

A comprehensive guide to the current state of CM, the text begins with an introduction to fundamental CM principles and activities and then illustrates how each can be tailored to meet a development organization's unique needs. In short, this easy-to-use reference will give organizations and individuals the tools they need to insure the integrity of their products and effectively manage the evolution of their systems.

Contents

A. WHAT IS CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT?
1. Definition of Configuration Management Used in This Book.
2. Configuration Management in Maturity Models.
3. Configuration Management in International Standards.
4. Organisations Working with Configuration Management.
5. Scoping the Configuration Management Task.
B. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DATA.
6. What Can Be Placed Under Configuration Management.
7. What One Needs to Know about a Configuration Item.
8. What One Must Register for a Configuration Item.
9. What Information Is Available for Configuration Items.
C. ROLES IN CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
10. People and Configuration Management.
11. Configuration Management Roles.
12. Organizational Roles.
13. Project Related Roles.
14. External Roles.
D. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE
15 General Principles.
16. Configuration Management in the Development Activities.
17. Managing Configurations for the Project Support Functions.
18. Managing Configurations in Different Development Models.
19. Managing Configurations for Different Product Types.
20. Managing Configurations under Special Conditions.
21. Managing Configurations for Cross-Organizational Functions.
22 Getting Started on CM—up to Capability Level 1.
23. Planning of CM—up to Capability Level 2.
24. Processes for CM—up to Capability Level 3.
25. Continuous Improvement of CM—from Capability Level 4 to Capability Level 5.
26. Tool Support for Configuration Management.
Afterthought.
Appendix A: References.
Appendix B: Glossary.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Anne Mette Jonassen Hass
Parution	13/02/2003
Nb. de pages	370
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	880g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780321117663
ISBN13	978-0-321-11766-3