Configuration control
Last updated: July 20, 2023
The process and procedures that manage how changes are proposed, reviewed, approved and recorded, and then incorporated into a object and its associated documentation.
Configuration control is a part of overall configuration management, and uses review and release processes which involve the systematic recording, proposal, evaluation, co-ordination, approval and implementation, or rejection of:
Formal Configuration Control is only performed after approval of an item, the item's baseline, and/or the approval of a document.
The process of configuration control is summarized as follows:
- Registration of a change proposal.
- Identification of candidate items and/or documents subject to change control.
- Performing a change request effects analysis to ascertain which other objects and associated data are possible candidates for change.
- Performing an impact analysis which quantifies and qualifies the change impact on costs, schedule, performance, benefits, contracts, etc.
- Formal identification of affected prime objects, associated data and documents.
- Formal approval to proceed with change implementation.
- Identification and tasking of resources to proceed with change implementation.
- Expediting, monitoring and reporting of change implementation status.
See also BASELINE, CHANGE, CHANGE EFFECTS ANALYSIS, CHANGE ORDER, DATA, DOCUMENT APPROVAL, ITEM APPROVAL, and MODIFICATION.