Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World

* The practical guide to implementing configuration management (CM) best practices that support consistently successful technology development
* Shows how to use CM to meet business objectives, contractual requirements, and compliance rules.
* Covers all six CM pillars: source code management, build engineering, environment configuration, change control, release engineering, and deployment.
* Helps IT pros avoid costly pitfalls, and implement pragmatic, lean processes.

As IT systems become ever more complex and mission-critical, IT professionals must focus more and more on the discipline of Configuration Management (CM). By implementing CM best practices, IT organizations can systematically manage change, avoiding unexpected or unwanted problems introduced by changes to hardware, software, or networks. While increasingly popular frameworks such as ITIL offer guidance on CM, they can be very difficult to understand and implement. Moreover, few IT practitioners have the knowledge they need to succeed with CM, whether they use formal frameworks or not.