Configuration management is a vital part of the safety of any space system, and a staple to those in the safety business. What is configuration management? It's simply knowing exactly what the piece of equipment is and what it does at any point in its life, cradle to grave. This includes knowing which software version is being used and how changes might affect the desired effect. Remember the s...

neering 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.[1][2] The CM process is widely used by military engineering organizations to manage complex systems, such as weapon systems, vehicles, and information systems. Outside the military, the CM proce...

in recent years, there has been a great concern about strategic supply chain management. the supply chain configuration approach is related to strategic management of material and information flows. most of suggested configurations in the part of strategic direction are based on environmental factors and structure-conduct-performance approach. exploring supply chain configuration with emphasis ...

Manipulating and defining content of configuration files is one of the central tasks of configuration management tools. This is important to ensure a desired and correct behavior of computer systems. However, often considered very simple, this task can turn out to be very challenging. Configuration management tools provide different strategies for content manipulation of files, hence an adminis...

Configuration management, the traditional CM, has been subsumed by a new CM, change management. The strategic organization looks ahead and this includes planning for change. This is an area of particular interest to software product line organizations. A product line organization must manage multiple options and control implementations of those options. In this issue of Strategic Software Engin...