PROGRAM CMS 801: MASTERING CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT STUDIES
Course Description: CMS 801 introduces Configuration Management and its processes from concept to execution. We designed this course to improve your performance in leading, designing, and managing the Configuration Management environment in your workplace. Bringing Structural Capital to the refinement of your Configuration Management environment, this program enables you to better establish and implement an appropriate Configuration Management environment to support all product development activities within your organization and formalize relationships with senior managers and executives. In this Configuration Management Course, you will learn how to:
- Describe Configuration Management (CM) using the expanded perspective of systems thinking;
- Design an environment to enhance communications with executives regarding the business justification for Configuration Management;
- Identify the principal components of the CM environment and relate it to the executive agenda;
- Identify the commitments of executives for every project;
- Design an appropriate management agenda linking CM to the business strategies;
- Establish the structure for maintaining productive CM relationships with executives and end-users;
- Identify the CM structure, environment, process, and methodology design system;
- Formally kick-off the CM process using the Charter approach, and
- Identify important management and technical issues to be resolved from the beginning.
Topic Listing:
- CMS 801A: Introducing the Space of Configuration Management
- CMS 801B: Identifying the Fundamentals of Configuration Management
- CMS 801C: Justifying Configuration Management Justifying Configuration Management
- CMS 801D: Mastering the Characteristics of Configuration Management Mastering the Characteristics of Configuration Management
- CMS 801E: Managing the Configuration Management Challenge