Successfully implementing configuration management

To increase product quality, development efficiency, and enterprise profitability, many organizations are striving to achieve repeatable, engineered software development processes. Effective configuration management is essential to reaching this goal. CM can organize project components and streamline and control software development processes. A fully deployed and integrated CM solution consists of several tools. By carefully designing how CM components fit your processes and how your processes will change as a result of using CM, you can significantly enhance your software quality. We suggest an approach and provide planning and implementation guidelines for a pilot client-server software development project.