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Configuration management (CM) principles underlie sound business practices being used throughout industry and government to provide:
The orderly establishment, documentation, and maintenance of a product's functional, performance and physical attributes;
Management of changes to the attributes;
Access to accurate infomration essential to the product's development, fabrication, production, use, maintenance, procurement, and eventual disposal.

This standard presents configuration management from the viewpoint that configuration management practices are employed because they make good business sense rather than because requirements are imposed by an external customer. The standard discusses configuration management principles and practices from an enterprise view; it does not prescribe which CM activities individual organizations or teams within the enterprise should perform. Each enterprise assigns responsibilities in accordance with its own management policy.

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Published: 08/01/1998 ANSI: ANSI Approved Number of Pages: 74