Archive for September, 2009
Forensic Configuration Management
Posted by Mark in Configuration Management, ITSLM, Plain Old Blog on September 21, 2009
One of the things about being a freelance consultant is that you often get to see projects when they are at their worst ebb. After all, one is seldom called in to solve non-problems. The basic pattern of a contract goes like this. Work out what is going on. Work out how it got that [...]
Stupid Questions
Posted by Mark in Plain Old Blog on September 17, 2009
When visiting forums or one of the ever-growing number of community sites (where we are invited to ‘Join the Community’, add friends, join sub-groups and so on) it is easy to join but often less easy to join in. Sure, casual community sites like Facebook are generally easy to dive into. The cost of any [...]
What is configuration management?
Posted by Mark in Configuration Management, Plain Old Blog on September 16, 2009
Configuration management is four things. Identification Change control Status accounting Auditing Nothing more, nothing less. Derived disciplines such as software configuration management, product data management and so on, are always based on these four functions.
