Establish and maintain records describing configuration items.

Typical Work Products

1.    Revision history of configuration items

2.    Change log

3.    Change request records

4.    Status of configuration items

5.    Differences between baselines

Typical Supplier Deliverables

1.    Revision history of product and supplier deliverables defined in the supplier agreement

Subpractices

1.    Record configuration management actions in sufficient detail so the content and status of each configuration item is known and previous versions can be recovered.

2.    Ensure that relevant stakeholders have access to and knowledge of the configuration status of configuration items.

3.    Specify the latest version of baselines.

4.    Identify the version of configuration items that constitute a particular baseline.

5.    Describe differences between successive baselines.

6.    Revise the status and history (i.e., changes and other actions) of each configuration item as necessary.