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Configuration Management

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This chapter discusses configuration management and discusses the fundamental concept of a baseline. Configuration management is concerned with identifying those deliverables that must be subject to change control and controlling changes to them.

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    These may be defined in a Configuration Management procedure and referenced in the CM plan.

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    This depends on the size of the organization and projects. The project manager may perform the CM manager role for small projects.

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    This may just be a simple Excel spread sheet or a sophisticated tool.

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Correspondence to Gerard O’Regan .

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O’Regan, G. (2022). Configuration Management. In: Concise Guide to Software Engineering. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07816-3_12

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