Configuration plays an important role in every industry. Even when you buy a cupboard from a well-known Swedish manufacturer, the parts delivered must match the assembly instructions.

The management of components and their different versions, which together from a 'configuration', has become an unavoidable aspect of the product lifecycle and its variants. Due to the increasing level of incremental/iterative development processes and product-line and platform-based approaches, configuration management (CM) is assuming even greater importance. This begins right from start with the requirements.

Using an appropriate software support tool and beginning with the requirements, HOOD will show you how to introduce, implement and establish configuration management in your organisation.

HOOD can support you in:

• defining comprehensive configuration management processes, which don't just begin at the source-code file stage
• evaluating your existing configuration management processes using a maturity models and highlighting potential for optimisation
• integrating your requirements and configuration management
• evaluating and introducing new CM tools