Editing Configuration management (section)

==History==
Configuration Management originated in the [[United States Department of Defense]] in the 1950s as a technical management discipline for hardware material items—and it is now a standard practice in virtually every industry. The CM process became its own technical discipline sometime in the late 1960s when the DoD developed a series of [[United States Military Standard|military standards]] called the "480 series" (i.e., MIL-STD-480, MIL-STD-481 and MIL-STD-483) that were subsequently issued in the 1970s. In 1991, the "480 series" was consolidated into a single standard known as the MIL–STD–973 that was then replaced by MIL–HDBK–61 pursuant to a general DoD goal that reduced the number of military standards in favor of industry [[technical standards]] supported by [[standards organization|standards developing organizations]] (SDO).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=32397|title=''Memorandum, Specifications and Standards – A New Way of Doing Business''|publisher=Secretary of Defense|date=29 June 1994|access-date=2012-03-23|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021123641/https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=32397|archive-date=21 October 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> This marked the beginning of what has now evolved into the most widely distributed and accepted standard on CM, [[ANSI–EIA–649]]–1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~yang/495ppt/config_management.pdf|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.cs.wcupa.edu/~yang/495ppt/config_management.pdf|archive-date=2022-10-09|url-status=live|title=''Configuration Management Compliance Validation: Critical Review and Technology Assessment(CR/TA)Report''|publisher=Defense Technical Information Center|access-date=14 May 2001}}</ref> Now widely adopted by numerous organizations and agencies, the CM discipline's concepts include [[systems engineering]] (SE), [[Integrated Logistics Support]] (ILS), [[Capability Maturity Model Integration]] (CMMI), [[ISO 9000]], [[Prince2]] project management method, [[COBIT]], [[ITIL]], [[product lifecycle management]], and [[Application Lifecycle Management]]. Many of these functions and models have redefined CM from its traditional holistic approach to technical management. Some treat CM as being similar to a librarian activity, and break out change control or change management as a separate or stand alone discipline.