• Why we need configuration management?
  
  • Need to redo the same product.
    
  • Need for the mastering the development of complex system.
    
• Objectives
  
  • To know the physical and functional description of the product, its components and the associated supporting elements.
    
  • To enable each participant to use coherent and validated data.
    
• Definitions
  
  • Product - Result of process, there are 4 generic product categories:
    
    • Services
      
    • Software
      
    • Hardware
      
    • Processed materials (e.g. lubricant)
      
  • Product tree – Hierarchical structure depicting the product orientated breakdown of the project orientated breakdown of the project into successive levels of detail down to the configuration items.
    
  • Configuration – Functional or physical characteristics of a product defined in configuration definition documents subject to configuration baseline.
    
  • Configuration item – Aggregation(การรวมกัน) of hardware, software, processed materials, services or any of its discrete portions, that is designated for configuration management and treated(ปฏิบัติ, รักษา)
    as a single entity in the configuration management process.
    

    ** Configuration item can contain other configuration item(s).

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