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This months newsletter is a collection of posts from the Configuration Management is… series I have posted on LinkedIn. These posts are not intended to limit the scope of Configuration Management, but to create awareness of the breadth of CM. Configuration Management is… #Baselines! Let’s talk about Baselines. Imagine building a house without a blueprint. Each contractor works from their own notes, making changes as they see fit. The result? A… Read More »Configuration Management is… Part 2
Configuration Management is… Scalability! Scaling an organization that delivers complex products—whether it’s an aircraft, industrial machine, or vehicle—is not just about producing more. It’s about ensuring that every unit and every process remains consistent, traceable, and adaptable as demand grows. Without a robust CM strategy, scaling leads to cost overruns, supply chain issues, compliance risks, and quality escapes. Why CM is the Foundation of Scalable Engineering & Manufacturing: Baseline Integrity Ensures Repeatability… Read More »Configuration Management is… Scalability!
Configuration Management is… Visibility! Imagine driving through dense fog without headlights or a GPS. That’s what managing a complex product lifecycle feels like without Configuration Management (CM). CM provides visibility—ensuring that teams, stakeholders, and decision-makers have a clear line of sight into product configurations, changes, and impacts. It prevents costly surprises, reduces risk, and enhances collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, and service teams. Visibility enables:Informed Decision Making – Clear, concise and… Read More »Configuration Management is… Visibility
Configuration Management is… Verification and Audit! Imagine you’re managing a project – a new product introduction, a system upgrade, or just processing component end-of-life changes. Everything appears to be on track, but how can you be sure? That’s where #Verification and #Audit step in, bridging the gap between confidence and chaos. Ensuring every component of your system is exactly where it should be, and it is documented to prove it.… Read More »Configuration Management is… Verification and Audit!
Configuration Management is Quality! Today let’s look at #Quality. Depending who you ask you will get a different definition of what quality is. Some would say it is whatever the customer says it is, but that makes it rather fuzzy. I prefer to state that Quality = Conformance to Requirements. Requirements are a good way to capture what the customer wants but also what your company wants to bring to… Read More »Configuration Management is… Quality!
Co-Authors: Florian Böhme, Lucas Heckmann, and Jean-Hervé Poisson In the fourth edition in the CM+Agile series we will take you through a day in the life of a configuration and technical change manager in an agile organization. Daily Standups: Checking the Config and Software Release Status The day started like any other at Cargile, an agile car software company. As the Configuration and Technical Change Manager, my first task was to check last night’s automated… Read More »A day in the life of a Configuration and Technical Change Manager in an Agile Organization.
#ConfigurationManagement is… #Ownership! In my previous posts I focused on #Identification, Part Re-Identification, #ProductStructures, #Trust, and #Integrity of data. But you will not be able to achieve this without having proper Ownership of the data in place. Ownership is not that 10 high level managers need to sign off on a design. Ownership is about the #Creators and #Users of the data. A design or any other kind of dataset… Read More »Configuration Management is… Ownership
#ConfigurationManagement is…#Integrity In my previous post I already mentioned that having the right product structures is key to ensure integrity of the configuration information. The moment you loose integrity of your information, what is the value of that information? Garbage in is garbage out. Within #CM people drive to ensure that information integrity is not compromised. That means that Configuration Managers make the unpopular decision to do the right thing… Read More »Configuration Management is… Integrity
