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Configuration Management Plan Template

A Configuration Management Plan is used to establish and maintain consistency in a software product by coordinating performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information.

Use this template to:

Manage security features and assurances through change controls made to hardware, software, documentation, test, and documentation throughout the life cycle of an IT system.
Identify attributes that define every aspect of a configuration item.
Establish change control processes and approval stages required to change a configuration item's attributes.
Record and report on the configuration baselines associated with each configuration item at any moment of time.

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This Configuration Management Plan includes a 24 page template in MS Word™ format, which can be easily modified for your next project.

This template includes sections on Configuration Tasks, Configuration Identification, Configuration Items, Configuration Management Repositories, Configuration Control, Problem Resolution Tracking, System Change Requests, Configuration Status Accounting, Configuration Audits, and Configuration Plan Maintenance.

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Chapter 1, Introduction

Chapter 2,Organization

Chapter 2.2, Roles and Responsibilities

Chapter 3, Configuration Tasks

Chapter 4, Configuration Control

Chapter 4.7, System Change Requests

Chapter 5, Configuration Status Accounting

Chapter 6, Configuration Audits & Reviews

Form #1 - Configuration Audit Report

Form #2 - Configuration Item Record

Form #3 - Configuration Management Maintenance Form

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Table of Contents TOC

1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE
1.2 BACKGROUND
1.3 SCOPE
1.4 BENEFITS
1.5 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS

2 ORGANIZATION
2.1.1 Configuration Management Office
2.1.2 Configuration Control Board
2.2 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
2.2.1 Responsibilities of the Configuration Control Board
2.2.2 Responsibilities of the Configuration Control Board Chair
2.2.3 Responsibilities of the Configuration Management Office
2.2.4 Responsibilities of the System Engineer
2.3 POLICIES, DIRECTIVES AND PROCEDURES
2.4 TOOLS

3 CONFIGURATION TASKS
3.1 CONFIGURATION IDENTIFICATION
3.2 CONFIGURATION ITEMS 11
3.3 CONFIGURATION ITEM IDENTIFIER
3.4 BASELINE MANAGEMENT
3.4.1 Functional Baseline
3.4.2 Design Baseline
3.4.3 Development Baseline
3.4.4 Product Baseline
3.5 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT REPOSITORIES
3.6 VENDOR CONTROL

4 CONFIGURATION CONTROL
4.1 CHANGE CLASSIFICATIONS
4.2 IDENTIFICATION OF PROPOSED CHANGES
4.3 DOCUMENTATION OF PROPOSED CHANGES
4.4 EVALUATION OF PROPOSED CHANGES
4.4.1 Processing Urgent Changes
4.5 INTEGRATION OF APPROVED CHANGES
4.5.1 Requirement Baseline Changes
4.5.2 Production Baseline Changes
4.5.3 Process Baseline Changes
4.6 PROBLEM RESOLUTION TRACKING
4.7 SYSTEM CHANGE REQUESTS
4.8 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT LIBRARIES
4.9 RELEASE MANAGEMENT
4.10 VERSION CONTROL

5 CONFIGURATION STATUS ACCOUNTING
5.1 STATUS ACCOUNT DATA
5.2 AUDIT TRAIL
5.3 STATUS SUMMARY REPORTS

6 CONFIGURATION AUDITS AND REVIEWS
6.1 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT PROCESS AUDITS
6.2 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT BASELINE AUDIT
6.3 OPERATIONAL READINESS REVIEWS
6.4 FUNCTIONAL CONFIGURATION AUDITS
6.5 PHYSICAL CONFIGURATION AUDITS
6.6 PEER REVIEWS

7 CONFIGURATION PLAN MAINTENANCE
8 TRAINING
9 APPENDIX