PatrickEgan is the owner of www.cmcrossroads.com. CM Crossroads is the worlds largest online community and resource center for configuration management. CM Crossroads hosts interactive discussion forums, an extensive library of resource links, a Jobs Board, a user contributed file cabinet and a WikiWiki Web dedicated to the creation of the Configuraiton Management Body of Knowledge (CMBoK)
The short version is... Configuration management is a development discipline in which you track all the changes made to a software application. In involves version control, change requests, approval processes, bug fixes, lifecycle control (stages of the application Dev, TEST, QA, Beta, Release) and build/deploy control.
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