In product, system, and software development, the professional implementation of configuration management plays a crucial role in the success of the entire development process and the resulting product. This book provides a compact overview of the essential knowledge required for configuration management. The discussions are accompanied by practical experiences and example templates.

The content includes:

• Why configuration management
• Activities in configuration management
• Structures
• Versioning
• Releases and baselines
• Configuration items
• Configuration management plan
• Context
• Maturity and process models
• Standards
• Change management
• Build management
• Audit management
• Tools
• Subversion
• Practical experiences
• Examples
• Templates

The target audience includes managing directors, team and project leaders, developers, lecturers, and students.

The author, Dipl.-Ing. Marcus Grande, is a team leader and software developer in the field of embedded systems.