Guidelines: Important Decisions in Configuration & Change Management

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Decide How to Perform the Workflow
Decide How to Use Artifacts

Decide How to Perform the Workflow

The following decisions should be made regarding the Configuration & Change Management discipline's workflow:

Decide how to perform the workflow by looking at the Configuration & Change Management: Workflow. Study the diagram with its guard conditions, and the guidelines below. Decide which workflow details to perform and in which order.
Decide what parts of the Configuration & Change Management workflow details to perform. For example, the Workflow Detail: Manage Change Requests is performed only if you are going to manage the change requests in a systematic way.
Decide when, during the project lifecycle, to introduce each part of the workflow. More information can be found Configuration & Change Management: Workflow.

Document the decisions in the Development Case, under the headings Disciplines, Configuration & Change Management, Workflow.

Decide How to Use Artifacts

Decide which artifacts to use and how to use each of them. The table below describes those artifacts you must have and those used in some cases. For more detailed information on how to tailor each artifact, and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of that specific artifact, read the section titled "Tailoring" for each artifact.

For each artifact, decide how the artifact should be used: Must have, Should have, Could have or Won't have. For more details, see the Guidelines: Classifying Artifacts.

Artifact	Brief Tailoring Comments (see the artifact for details)
Change Request	Should have. Use this to track all types of requests for changes.
Configuration Audit Findings	Could have.
Configuration Management Plan	Could have. Use this if needed.
Project Repository	Must have. This is where you put all the project artifacts.
Workspace	Must have.

Tailor each artifact by performing the steps described in Activity: Develop Development Case, under the heading "Tailor Artifacts per Discipline".

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