Configuration management
Definition
Configuration management is The process of identifying and documenting the characteristics of an organization’s structures, systems and components (including computer systems and software), and of ensuring that changes to these characteristics are properly developed, assessed, approved, issued, implemented, verified, recorded and incorporated into the organization’s documentation.
Source: Planning and Execution of Knowledge Management Assist Missions for Nuclear Organizations
Summary
Description 1
The IAEA-TECDOC-1335, January 2003, ‘Configuration management in nuclear power plants’ presents a basic approach to configuration management; it considers experience gained from discussions at meetings organized on the subject, and from organizations and utilities, which have successfully implemented partial or full configuration management programmes.
Source: Planning and Execution of Knowledge Management Assist Missions for Nuclear Organizations
