Configuration Management - lecture 6b:

CM & variants + CM & PDM

Literature

• Axel Mahler: Variants: Keeping Things Together and Telling Them Apart.
  Read this paper and appreciate that even though the abstract principle is simple, variants in real life are rather complex beasts.
• Asklund et al: Product Data Management and SCM - Similarities and Differences, ch. 2 & 4.
  Read the extracts from this report and reflect on the potential consequences of the similarities and differences between PDM and SCM.

Lecture summary

• SCM & variants
• variant representation
• managing and using variants
• Product Data Management
• PDM & SCM - similarities and differences
• PDM and SCM integration

Quote of the day

I used to keep an open mind, but people kept throwing rubbish in it. (Anonymous)