Configuration Management References

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Web sites

Please note that the BCS CMSG has its own interactive forum at CMCrossroads.

UCM Central is a useful resource of shorter articles.

The Configuration Management II User Group CMII is an enterprise wide configuration management methodology implemented and/or used as a process model, by hundreds of companies and organizations around the world.

Towards Software Excellence UK Site sponsored by the DTI and the National Computing Centre.

The Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model has configuration and change management processes. See the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) web site http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/cmms/transition.html. This covers Software, Systems Engineering, and Product Development Capability Maturity Models® (CMMs®). 

SPICE web site: Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination http://www.sqi.gu.edu.au/SPICE/

V Model http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/uniform/gdpa/

IT Service Management Forum, www.itsmf.com

Best Practice

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TickIT Guide Using ISO 9001:2000 for Software Quality Management System Construction, Certification and Continual Improvement, ISBN 580 36943 9 - this has useful sections on configuration management through the lifecycle and also includes change control and release control. This is based on the Software Lifecycle processes used in ISO/IEC 12207:1995 Information technology -- Software life cycle processes 

Recently the British Standards Institute (BSI) and DISC have published: 

• A standard on IT Service Management, (BSI 15000)
•  A code of practice for IT Service Management (DISC PD 0005)
•  IT Service Management - Self Assessment Workbook (DISC PD 0015)

http://www.bsi.org.uk/disc/products

Tel: 0181 996 9001

These documents have sections on change, configuration and release management. 
You can also obtain copies from, http:// www.itsmf.com

OGC's IT Infrastructure Library, (âITIL), recent publications available from The Stationery Office, Tel 0171 873 9090 or ITSMF, Tel: 01603 767181, http:// www.itsmf.com

a) Best Practice for Service Support, ISBN 0-11-330015-8 - there are chapters on Change Management, Release Management and Configuration (written by CMSG committee members Shirley Lacy and Roy Harrow)
b) Best Practice for Service Delivery ISBN 0-11-330017-4

OGC's Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE 2, ISBN 0-11-330855-8
The Stationery Office, Tel 0171 873 9090 - has sections on change control, configuration management and product breakdown structures. 

ISO 10007:1995 
Quality management -- Guidelines for configuration management 
Edition: 1, Technical committee / subcommittee: TC 176 / SC 2, ICS: 03.120.10
ISO/IEC 12207:1995
Information technology -- Software life cycle processes 
Edition: 1, Technical committee / subcommittee: JTC 1 / SC 7, ICS: 35.080

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Books and other Publications 

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Configuration Management - The Changing Image, Marion Kelly, 1996, McGraw Hill, 
ISBN 0-07-707977-9

Practical Software Configuration Management, Tim Mikkelsen & Suzanne Pherigo, 1997, Prentice Hall, 
ISBN 0-13-240854-6

The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, Addison-Wesley, 
ISBN 0-201 54664-7

Methods and tools for Software Configuration Management, D. Whitgift, Wiley, 1991

ANS/IEEE Std 828-1983, "IEEE Standard for Software Configuration Management 

Babich, Wayne A. Software Configuration Management. Coordination for Team Productivity. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesely, 1986.

Berlack, H. Ronald. Software Configuration Management: New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1992.
Bersoff, Edward H., Vilas D. Henderson, Stan G. Siegel. "Software Configuration Management: A Tutorial". IEEE Computer Magazine, January 1979, pp. 6-14.

Boehm, Barry W. Software Engineering Economics. Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Buckley, Fletcher J., Implementing Configuration Management: Hardware, Software and Firmware, New York: IEEE Society Press, 1993.

EIA/IEEE J-STD-016. "Interim Standard for Information Technology - Software Life Cycle Processes - Software Development - Acquirer-Supplier Agreement." New York. IEEE, 1995.

Humphrey, Watts S. A Discipline for Software Engineering. Reading, MA:Addison Wesley Publishing Co., 1995.

Kan, Stephen H. Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering. Reading MA: Addison Wesley Publishing Co., 1995.

Mikkelsen, Tim, and Suzanne Pherigo. Practical Software Configuration Management: The Latenight Developer's Handbook. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR, 1997.

AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management -William Brown, Hays McCormick, Scott Thomas -Wiley Computing Publishing - ISBN 0-471-32929-0