The main advantage of the configuration of the formal project management is the result of good management of change, as evidenced by the changes that have been identified, structured, and property. Configuration Management provides the documentation that explains why the project has changed, the changes and change of ownership has been assigned.
The PMBOK AllemagneProjet said that entitéIET is responsible to manage change Menno following responsibilities:
1. Recognize when there was a change.
2nd The filter changes to unsuitable people.
3rd Make sure that the change is good.
4th Management of change.
Configuration management system is to achieve these tasks, as well as products, systems and software version control.
The main drawback is the heart of configuration management that wants rispettoci tempor, costs money and may lead to a level of formality that some people see as unnecessary or uncomfortable. If all the project managers were walking computer, it is not necessary for the documentation and configuration management (CM) tools. However, since members are often difficult to juggle many priorities, can not remember all the details, and what is the importantportant examples to clarify the need for more time to the use of techniques for the CM.
UNo other disadvantage of CM is that customers often find that these documents takes time and, as a race of urgency to productive work and to minimize the cost of the project can not see this working directly add value to the product. Some customers do not pay management costs of the project that could be construed as administrative work or work which may be less formal.
It is possible that some customers do not want change, becausemanagement of a branch has been formally accused by the changes that prefers to slip by unnoticed. However, this leads us to the benefits of a configuration management system and to inform customers about how the changes will be handled from the beginning.
Guidelines for Use
The Institute of Configuration Management (ICM), in http://www.icmhq.com provide education and certification in cm. The following are guidelines for the use gestures generaleuikone configuration, which are also the level that was discussed at MCI. This discussion is aimed at small and medium-size, moving at a much lower level of technology and the complexity of which management tools CONFIGURATIEion pourlogiciel. The main guidelines for the use of CM at the beginning of the project cycle. The project examines the potential fluidity of the project by imploraree the creation of a scale appropriatepriate and configuration management system for planning the project, more than half of benefits. When asked what would the next time, most teamsdiren starting their management of change, at the beginning of his next project, rather than as an add-on or later (4).
Another important direction is the development of a reference plane (ie a description of the project, as omschbarriere for earlythe project), the different versions throughout the development and the final draft was published. This contrasts with the development of welding techniques, usually a clear formal voorrefnotices or project management for installation.
Another approach is to consider configuration management in two areas: 1) the proposed management changes, and 2) the product or content changes. The first riflettedenaro changes in processes, as approval of budgets, schedules, or acceptance. The latter is particularly evident in the contents of the draft decisions employee intranet, that the policies and performance can not change eliempo and often the company should be able to demonstrate that a specific policy was addressed to a specific date in time.
I had an experience with the CM content, while the first project manager for American Standard corporate intranet. VPer questo project, we limited our configuration management for the implementation of certain features and content areas that are legal Intranet lation lation vulnerable areas such as benefits and policies.
Another good practice is documtes who holds the different components of the project, including the features and functions, as well as the specific content. On his turn, more houses, and a person brings a new perspective for the project, there is usually TEMPORARY an increase in the exchange rate.
Appuyer concerned the proposed changes and configuration management processes proliferation are essential to the success of the system. With the CM, change the acceptance of decisions to be taken on board a named chained (CCB) and, more generally, over and above the level of project manager. However, the project manager is often essential for the balance of the project - to make the cost of goedgekeurdethe design, planning and quality of results.
Three tools can be utiliserest for configuration management
The three institutions have found that the high-end low-tech tools. The three institutions that I have chosen to discuss are: 1) plan document, 2) MS Visual Source Safe, and 3) vertical cieloción evolution of business solutions. These three instruments are very different in the services they provide to the CM. The plan is unoun printed document to be ugrated into a plan projetdocument. MS Visual Source Safe is a software programming tools for version control. Heaven and vertical content management software is a tool for version control for web sites.
Documentation Change Plan
In some projects, tools for configuration management are simply the best. For example, I used a simple table tracking How do I create a project is very stabilee my customer is cambiamentozione for the control of the company decides to top) For the work plan, the document was created with special attention to the numbers that are entered manually, automatically when changes are made to the document. (The function of the rule in MS Word ฎ is the automatic update of data, which is not desirable, as CM).
Quandc'est CM method, the rule is that nothing in the plan document be amended, unless Deze included in the table, and control of all products to manage the project and change. The minimum fields in this table includes all four shows. Every change is a unique identification number, the date on which the change is a record number of points of reference, and description. The documentation shows the numbers for each section of the product description graphique deontwerp-management plan. This helps readers find fisicamentand nocambió section of the document. And, finally, the modificheg for the project or product, as described in more detail if necessary. If you need help, the task of tracking changes in Word can be used to help save the reference plane for the preparation of amendments.
Source Safe
Microsoft Visual Source Safe a. NET is a development tool for Web developers with version control and sharing the results of theirwork and collaboration within a programming environment. The programming team of one of my projects are begonnen using this tool to solve the problems of version control CM more programmers working on the same question.
This is a simplified explanation of how the outilsient. We transferred all the program files used in a server in Source Safe. Source Safe, a large number of business rules to running (in particularre the list of programs are allowed, etc.). Any program loaded Autorizadogramática ees license and purchased from sources of safety in each of their systems. Then he had to "see" the files that worked on them. And, of course, that "the review enfichiers" when you're done. Source Safe changes, programs, dates and times, and save different versions of programming, allowing the team to ignore the later and return to earlier versions, if necessary.
Vertical Heaven
Vertical Sky CM is a web-based content management voor sentarsees large. The problem is "how do you really know what we have in our website pages at any time in history?" At first, this gedaanom avoid disputes of a website that provides information about what may never had.
The system of vertical sky is a process that begins with a content provider requests for changetion (RFC). The sky has influenced a vertical range of RFC accident, looking for action and decisions in this very yidentificar sitio web. If necessary, the contents of a problem can be reproduced by a certain date, in the meantime, the source of content for approval, so long as the content is sent, and other useful information.
Better how they can be applied to projects
Compare the three approaches described above,the only option to change the use of the material must be applied to very small projects can assezinformel is tenercambios child. It is intended to be used for projects that are so small that only the use of a database, but it is reasonable to scan a visual document of the proposed changes. This could be used in combination with other CM tools.
Source of safety must be applied to projects as a tool to support multiple sviluppatori working on projects in a repository. This should zorgen DECLARATION that the work is not replaced, a programmer who does not destroy the work of another project Thael is not available through a network, and the goods remain the property of the organization (not a person). This can also be used with other CM tools.
Vertical sky should be applied to projects that have websites and, if necessary for a clear price changes (foras a corporate intranet). Potentiellementassez is strong in body, that can predict the need for project management, software version (as a source of security) and the CM content. Espoco likely to have used other tools in the sky from the vertical.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantage of using the plan that changes very fast, easy and free. It supports the comprehensive plan, and changes in the dance itself a simple document Word. The disadvantage is that it is too simplistic for grandiai projects that supplementation with the addition of a full documentation of history, change, change of ownership, and detailed decisions.
The advantage is that Source Safe does not have all the things that are supposed to do when properly applied to projects. The disadvantage is that more (and cost) of software that you need ESTIT time of use in terms of input and output of the file, which slows the backup process (because all GEFilterd each backup), and more time in many training courses for staff in May to learn new skills.
The advantage of vertical sky is the version that automates control of content, freeing staff to reach and document the changes manually save Cantidad mature version of back-up. The weakness is that it can be seen as too complicated for the utentities. It passed, makes no distinction between changes and irrelevant. Nite if a file is changed, there is a change, that changes to the registry to be much larger and more space would be ideal.
Once an organization has to develop an integrated system like the sky to the vertical processes of project-specific websites, you feel trapped in it - even to the point where you can 'shoot hostage quite expensive contracts supporto and updates.
References
1. CMII - Model CGestione onfiguration Rev. B), White Paper published in PDF format on the website of 'Institute of Configuration Management. The beginning of the CMI, which was published in 2003.
2nd Burrows, Clive. Configuraciónración management, most edannonce in 2000. http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/1999/03/burrows.asp. 3rd Resource Library change management, http://www.change-management.org/. 4th Best practices willlla change management, http://www.changemanagement. com / report.htm best practices.