Configuration Management - lecture 5b:

Status Accounting & Audit + CM plans & roles

Literature

• Daniels, chapters 4 & 5.
  Read these two chapters. Make sure that you fully understand:
  • the goals of status accounting
  • what reports can be generated from status accounting
  • why and how audits are conducted
• Leon, chapter 11.
  Read this chapter as background material for the exercises next week, where you have to produce parts of a CM-plan. Section 2.2 in Daniels also gave information about CM-plans.
• Compton, chapter 3.
  Read this chapter to get a feel for the different roles and responsibilities connected with CM.

Lecture summary

• Status accounting
• Auditing
• Integrated solutions
• CM plans
• CM roles

Quote of the day

CM-managers version of the beer song:

99 little bugs in the code,
99 little bugs in the code,
remove one bug - recompile and run
101 little bugs in the code....