C
Configuration Management
(Context: Project Management, Security)
A technical and management process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life. The major CM functions are Management and Planning; Configuration Identification; Configuration Change Management; Configuration Status Accounting; and Configuration Verification and Audit. (Context: Project Management)
A formal discipline that provides project team members and customers with the methods and tools that are used to identify the product developed, establish baselines, control changes to these baselines, record and track status, and audit the product. (Context: Information Systems Security)
Reference:
MIL-HDBK 61A, ANSI/EIA 649-B-2011
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