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Configuration
Management Reviews
Configuration
management reviews or more commonly known – status accounting – is one
of the high level activities within Configuration Management.
Configuration status accounting is the reporting of all current and
historical data concerned with each CI throughout its life-cycle.
It enables tracking of
changes to CI’s and their records, e.g. tracking the status as a CI
changes from one state to another, e.g. 'development', 'test',
'live' or 'withdrawn'.
Configuration
management reviews - status reports
Status reports should
be produced on a regular basis, listing, for all CI’s under control,
their current version and Change history.
Status accounting
reports on the current, previous and planned states of the CI’s
should include:
- Unique identifiers
of constituent CI’s and their current status, e.g. 'under
development', 'under test', 'live'.
- Configuration
baselines, Releases and their status.
- Latest software item
versions and their status for a system baseline/application.
- The person
responsible for status change, e.g. from 'under test' to 'live'.
- Change history/audit
trail.
- Open Problems/RFC’s.
Configuration
management reviews - establish system baselines
Status accounting
reports can be used to establish system baselines and enable Changes
between baselines and Releases to be traceable.
Status reports may
include:
- Baseline and Release
identifiers.
- Latest software item
versions for a system build/application.
- The number of
Changes for a system.
- The number of
baselines and Releases.
- The usage and
volatility of CI’s.
- Comparisons of
baselines and Releases.
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