Editing Configuration management (section)

{{Short description|Process for maintaining consistency of a product attributes with its design}}
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[[File:ConfiurationActivityModel.png|right|thumb|400px|Top level Configuration Management Activity model]]

'''Configuration management''' ('''CM''') is a management process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/basic_profile.cfm?ident_number=202239|title=''MIL-HDBK-61A, ""Military Handbook: Configuration Management Guidance''|publisher=Department of Defense|date=7 February 2001|access-date=2012-03-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320093634/https://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/basic_profile.cfm?ident_number=202239|archive-date=20 March 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geia.org/ANSI-EIA-649-A-Standard----NATIONAL-CONSENSUS-STANDARD-FOR-CONFIGURATION-MANAGEMENT-|title=''ANSI/EIA-649B, ""National Consensus Standard for Configuration Management''|publisher=TechAmerica|date=1 April 2011|access-date=2012-03-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120801125835/http://www.geia.org/ANSI-EIA-649-A-Standard----NATIONAL-CONSENSUS-STANDARD-FOR-CONFIGURATION-MANAGEMENT-|archive-date=1 August 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The CM process is widely used by military engineering organizations to manage changes throughout the [[system lifecycle]] of [[complex system]]s, such as [[weapon]] systems, [[military vehicles]], and [[information system]]s. Outside the military, the CM process is also used with IT service management as defined by [[ITIL]], and with other [[domain model]]s in the civil engineering and other [[industrial engineering]] segments such as roads, bridges, [[canal]]s, dams, and buildings.<ref>{{cite web|title=History and Heritage of Civil Engineering|work=[[American Society of Civil Engineers|ASCE]]|url=http://live.asce.org/hh/index.mxml?versionChecked=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216235716/http://live.asce.org/hh/index.mxml?versionChecked=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2007|access-date=2007-08-08|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Institution of Civil Engineers What is Civil Engineering|work=[[Institution of Civil Engineers|ICE]]|url=http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads//little_book_full_colour.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923023137/http://www.ice.org.uk/downloads//little_book_full_colour.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-09-23|access-date=2007-09-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=''Configuration Management and the Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) National Lessons Learned Program''|work=Federal Transportation Administration|url=http://www.pacotechnologies.com/Pages/FTA-National-Lessons-Learned-Program.aspx|access-date=2007-09-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907165342/http://www.pacotechnologies.com/Pages/FTA-National-Lessons-Learned-Program.aspx|archive-date=7 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>