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Configuration Management is… Identification

#ConfigurationManagement is #Identification People ask me sometimes: Why do you need #CM? Well, for one, how else will you identify your parts/items, documents, datasets, changes, baselines, etc. If you do not have rules and governance in place on how you identify the objects relevant to your business, your probably are running a shell company or your will run your company into the ground. Identification is key in any business. Without… Read More »Configuration Management is… Identification

to revise or not to revise

Parts don’t have Revisions

In the last days of 2023, Martin Eigner posted about Form, Fit, and Function and one of the topics in there was the revisions of Parts. I thought about adding my comment, but it was difficult to capture everything in a short comment. So with this post, I try to provide my insights into the topic, which will be a rewrite of an existing post from a couple of years ago: HELP!!! Parts, Documents,… Read More »Parts don’t have Revisions

Customer Focus

How Configuration Management supports the shift in Customer Focus

Co-Authors: Lucas Heckmann, Florian Böhme, Jean-Hervé Poisson & Badia Dandana This is the second article in the CM+Agile series. This time we will dive into the required shift in Customer Focus and how Configuration Management can support this shift. Why do corporations like most Western Automotive OEMs struggle with products that have short life cycles? Corporations like most Western Automotive OEMs face significant challenges when it comes to developing products with short… Read More »How Configuration Management supports the shift in Customer Focus

Re-Identification

Re-Identification In my previous article on Impact analysis, I talked about how important good change impact analysis is and how to facilitate this. One of the critical elements of facilitating a good change impact analysis is Re-identification. Even though the term might suggest this, re-identification is not about changing the ID of an existing item. When you say you need to re-identify an item, basically it means that either the… Read More »Re-Identification