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1.0 Program Management
1.2 Program Management Planning
1.2.6 Develop Configuration Management Plan

1.2.6 Develop Configuration Management Plan

Configuration management is the discipline of identifying and formalizing the functional and physical characteristics of a configuration item at discrete points in the product evolution for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of the product system and controlling changes to the baseline. It permits the orderly development of a system, subsystem, or configuration item. A good configuration management program ensures that designs are traceable to requirements, that change is controlled and documented, that interfaces are defined and understood, and that there is consistency between the product and its supporting documentation.

Configuration management includes the activities related to configuration identification, control, verification, and accounting. Safe and successful projects require effective configuration management.

Software Configuration Management is addressed specifically in PBMA Section 5.2.1.1, Establish Software Configuration Management Plan.

Configuration Management References:

Chapter 10 of Defense Systems Management College Systems Engineering Fundamentals text.
Section 4.7 of NASA Systems Engineering Handbook SP-610S.
Sections 4.12 and 6.2 of Department of the Navy: Best Practices - How to Avoid Surprises in the World's Most Complicated Technical Process (NAVSO P-6071) - available in hardcopy from the US Government Online Bookstore.
Section titled Program Control in NASA: Needs and Opportunities in NASA text Readings In Program Control (SP-6103).

See the following examples of Configuration Management Plans in the PBMA Best Practices:

Configuration Management Plan - Ice, Clouds and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Project
Configuration Management - Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), Quality Management Plan
Configuration Management Plan - X-34 Flight Test, Configuration Management Plan (CMP)
Configuration Management Plan - Outer Planets/Solar Probe Project, Mission Assurance Plan (OP/SP)
Configuration Management Plan - Space Flight Operations Contract (SFOC), Shuttle Performance Surveillance Plan
Configuration Management Plan - Aviation Safety Program (AvSP), Configuration Management Plan
Configuration Management Plan - MSFC Station Life Support Projects Office, Configuration Management Plan
Configuration Management Plan - Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) 3, Configuration Management Plan
Configuration Management Plan - Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (GIFTS) - Indian Ocean METOC Imager (IOMI) Mission, Software Project Management Plan

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