Configuration Planning

Advice: Setting purpose and scope for configuration

Future proofing: Current capability against future needs

Interfaces: Management of customer or supplier interfaces

Resourcing: Guidance on levels and capacity planning

Planning: CMP and basic arrangements

Structure: Set-up for success

Configuration Identification

Requirements: Review of requirements leading to CI Selection

Documentation: Functional and Physical review of CIs

Product: Review of product definition data

Product structures: To achieve configuration control

Data: Review of configured data and metadata

Lifecycle: Workflow and release management

Establishment: Stable baselines to ensure project delivery

Analysis: Functional, Allocated and Product baselines

Assessment: For product stability

Replication: For variant introduction and control

Consolidation: Re-establish control over legacy products

General: Guidance and the efficient processing of change

Process: Assessment of change and associated functions

Boards: Establish boards for effective control of change

In-service: Application of CM against in-service assets

Change analytics: Assessment of current process efficiency

Targets: Change impacts and cost metrics review

Interaction: External bodies (customers, suppliers & authorities)

Reports: Accurate accounting of product configuration

Certification: Evidences for certification of the product

Records: Creation of master records

Assessment: For baseline and lifecycle phases

Visibility: Accurate decision making

Forecasting: Project schedule Protection

Process: Audits on internal arrangements for configuration against established standards and industry best practice

FCA/PCA: Audits covering all functional and physical project elements to international standards

Verification: Audits to re-establish product baselines during periods of change

Assistance: Audit preparation assistance for customer and government audits

Supplier: Assessment audits as part of the accreditation and selection process

Generic: Training to generic frameworks of configuration practice

Bespoke: Training on any element or practice of configuration to your configuration arrangements

Workshops: Presentation of common configuration practice