Configuration Management (Samaras and Zerwinski)

''Attributed by Neil Steeman via CmWiki. I have not verified this attribution.''

Configuration Management - the art of providing systematic and uniform configuration identification, control, and accounting of an equipment and its parts.

Configuration identification - the technical data describing the approved configuration of the product OR the process for identifying these data, the product, and the changes made to them.

Configuration control - the evaluation, coordination, and approval of all changes to the equipment configuration defined by the baseline.

Configuration accounting - the reporting and recording of all changes made to the baseline.

Baseline - an approved reference point for control of future changes to a product's performance, construction and design.