Configuration Management Principles and Practice

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword by Kim Caputo
Foreword by Alistair Cockburn
Preface
Introduction

I. 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. Organizations Working with Configuration Management
5. Scoping the Configuration Management Task
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

III. ROLES IN CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

10. People and Configuration Management
11. Configuration Management Roles
12. Organizational Roles
13. Project-Related Roles
14. External Roles

IV. CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT IN PRACTICE

15. General Principles
16. Configuration Management in Development Activities
17. Managing Configurations for 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 

V. IMPROVING CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

22. Getting Started on Configuration Management?up to Capability Level 1
23. Planning Configuration Management?up to Capability Level 2
24. Processes for Configuration Management?up to Capability Level 3
25. Continuous Improvement of Configuration Management?up to Capability Level 4 and 5
26. Tool Support for Configuration Management
Appendix A. Configuration Management Process Model:A Software Code Example
Appendix B. Configuration Management Process Model:A Tracing Example
Appendix C. Agile SCM
Glossary