This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for applying effective, secure and reliable configuration management techniques, whether in test, development or production environments. It includes instructions regarding the development, maintenance and evolution of these processes.

The policy is not intended to focus on the specific technical aspects of configuration management products; that’s the responsibility of the related vendors and their training/documentation. Rather, these guidelines focus on the processes behind successful configuration management.

From the policy:

THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Configuration management software and strategies should be devised, supported and updated by appropriate individuals only (CM personnel). The configuration management environment will be referred to as the CM environment.

CM personnel will be trained on the involved software/systems before implementation.

The download includes a PDF and Word document.

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