How do you select and use appropriate configuration management standards?

Selecting and using appropriate configuration management standards involves researching industry best practices and regulatory requirements. Evaluate standards like ISO 10007 or IEEE 828 based on my project's needs and compliance obligations. Implement the chosen standard consistently across all project phases and communicate its importance to the team. 📚🛠️🔍

Selecting standards is about finding a balance between industry best practices and what's practical for our context. I leverage Ansible's idempotence and modular design to adopt standards that ensure consistency and repeatability across our DevOps practices.

CM2 is the supporting infrastructure framework that bridges interoperability gaps between process requirements, design, and data flow tools. Value: A Digital Thread that provides insight to the upstream and downstream impacts of any change. Value: End-to-end data interoperability and requirements traceability and validation through enterprise standards. Value: Interoperability and agile scalability are made efficient with a robust enterprise framework and a common understanding and language for interoperation, integration, and communication.

In the heart of Metropolia, Arcanum Designs, led by Professor Adrian Stone, planned the Apex Tower. Concerned about configuration management, they researched standards. They chose IEEE 828 for its adaptability. Emily led its implementation, emphasizing its importance. With IEEE 828, they ensured seamless collaboration. Despite challenges, they delivered the Apex Tower, a masterpiece. The tower's unveiling marked their success—a testament to meticulous configuration management.

To select and use appropriate configuration management standards, first evaluate the project's requirements, complexity, and industry practices. Choose standards that align with these needs and ensure they are compatible with existing processes. Implement the standards by integrating them into your configuration management plan, training your team, and regularly reviewing their effectiveness to adapt as needed.

When considering a standard or framework for enterprise CM, it's vital to evaluate factors like system type, complexity, and industry sector. Assessing customer, user, and regulatory requirements alongside organizational capabilities and constraints is essential. Compatibility with existing standards, accessibility, and support are also key considerations

In the heart of Metropolia, Arcanum Designs, led by Professor Adrian Stone, planned the Apex Tower. Concerned about configuration management, they researched standards. They chose IEEE 828 for its adaptability. Emily led its implementation, emphasizing its importance. With IEEE 828, they ensured seamless collaboration. Despite challenges, they delivered the Apex Tower, a masterpiece. The tower's unveiling marked their success—a testament to meticulous configuration management.

Often times there are handbooks that go with these standards that help with implementation across the life cycle phases. For EIA-649 that is 649A HBK

It’s not only the application of a CM Standard which only works within a limited scope of an engineering function, almost in isolation of the many activities and associated tasks which are likely to have an impact. Examples, being in service support for the various products and their specific operating environments. Understanding the various products development phases (in detail) and how CM should be applied again in real (in the weeds) development. At the moment, I can’t provide a words (or words) that encapsulate my feelings on this important topic. But I’m absolutely certain that current Standards have an important role, but a much wider and more detailed Standard is required, with more applications and Implementation Standards.

CM2-500 consists of 19 core business process categories. 227 Operating Standards. CM2-600 (106 system functional requirements) is a benchmark to define Enabling Tool requirements to support CM activities. (PLM, ERP, QMS, etc.)

When considering how to use a standard or framework such as CM2, it's essential to approach it from an enterprise perspective rather than a siloed-centric view. This enables the establishment of a Digital Thread that provides insights into upstream and downstream impacts of any change, fostering agility and adaptability. Moreover, a common understanding and language for interoperation, integration, and communication are established, facilitating seamless alignment with enterprise standards and ensuring compatibility and consistency with other frameworks.

It is about finding the right balance between standards and your business priorities, people, process, data and tools. Note that standards often only describe what you should do, not how you should do it. That means there are a lot of implementation options to consider.