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Process for maintaining consistency of a product attributes with its design

Configuration management (CM) is a management process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. The CM process is widely used by military engineering organizations to manage changes throughout the system lifecycle of complex systems, such as weapon systems, military vehicles, and information systems. Outside the military, the CM process is also used within IT service management as defined by ITIL, and with other domain models in the civil engineering and other industrial engineering segments such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Configuration managementA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Circular ecosystem management: Orchestrating ecosystem value proposition and configurationInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Deployment Guide SeriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The SmartFrog configuration management frameworkCited 76 times
  5. Go sideways: Software configuration managementA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Configuration management databaseA closely related topic

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