COMP 8812: Change and Configuration Management Presentation

This presentation delves into the critical aspects of change and configuration management within software engineering, specifically tailored for a COMP 8812 course at Flinders University. It begins by defining change management as a systematic process for implementing changes in systems and projects, emphasizing the importance of positive outcomes aligned with business and client needs. The presentation outlines the process of change management, covering preparation, management, and reinforcement phases. It then introduces the Online Magazine Management System (OMMS) as a case study, illustrating how change management can lead to increased online sales, improved advertisement, and enhanced community engagement. The concept of configuration management is then explored, highlighting its role in maintaining product quality through the configuration of performance, functional, and physical features. The application of configuration management is discussed, including investigating previous studies, analyzing major elements, and proposing implementation methods. The presentation further examines GitHub version control as a tool for effective configuration management, emphasizing its role in data backup, concurrent development, and workflow efficiency. References to relevant literature, including Bourque and Fairley (2014) and Mahmoodi et al. (2017), are provided. The presentation aims to provide IT, Computer Science, and Software Engineering students with a comprehensive understanding of change and configuration management methods and tools, including best practices and practical applications, using GitHub as an example.

CHANGE AND
CONFIGURATION
MANAGEMENT
1. The process and application for change management
2. Application and management for configuration management

The Idea of Change Management
 It is a process or sequence of calculated steps
that is applied to imply a change in a system,
project or process.
 Implemented to manage a system or project for
making positive outcomes as per the
requirements of the business or the clients
(Bourque and Fairley 2014).
 Mostly implementation of change is built upon
the idea of finding discrepancy in the projects or
systems that are already running within the
organization.

Process of preparing for the
changes
Preparing for the
change
• Defining the change
management strategy
• Preparing the team for
the Change
Management
• Developing the model
Managing the
change
• Developing the plans for
change management
• Taking actions for the
implementation plans
Reinforcing the
change
• Collecting and
analyzing the feedback
• Diagnosing gaps and
managing the
resistance
• Implementing corrective
actions

OMMS CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Online Magazine Management System is proposed in
order to generate better result regarding their reader
subscriptions
 Mainly a web based application that could
simultaneously accessed online through wired and
wireless devices.
 The online tool will make sure that there is a proper
management of the electronic and print sales
 Online file library
 Online advertising
 Community forums

CHANGE MANAGEMENT
THROUGH OMMS
Change management mainly focuses on generating
better outcomes through changing the same
function in order to produce better outcomes in this
case of OOMS :
 Increased online sales
 Better aspect of advertisement
 Connecting to varied communities at the same
time
 Increased sale due to portability and reader
subscription
 Better management

The Idea of Configuration
Management
 Configuration Management maintains
and establishes the product quality
developed in a particular process.
 This process is taken into account by
configuring the performance of the
product, functional and physical features
with the help of its requirements and the
design and the operational information
of the product.

Application of the Configuration
Management
Investigating Previous Studies
Analyzing Configuration Management
Classifying the major elements
Deriving and verifying data breakdown
structure
Proposing the ways of applying the
Configuration Management

GITHUB VERSION
CONTROL
 They maintain a particular backup for
the set of files and documents that could
be accessed later even when one of the
file is missing.
 Also known as distributed version
control
 Provides the ease of workflow, handling
multiple work at the same time

GITHUB CONCURRENT
DEVELOPMENT
 The Github helps in accessing of the data
whenever possible. It is not centralized to one
environment that ensure there is least loss of data.
 Multitasking is possible in this version control,
 Work with different people simultaneously within
same project
 Ease of workflow.
The configuration management states the enhancing
of the product. through this version control we can
state that there is the development in the efficiency of
the project.

References
Bourque, P. and Fairley, R.E., 2014. Guide
to the software engineering body of
knowledge (SWEBOK (R)): Version 3.0.
IEEE Computer Society Press.
Mahmoodi, S., Durak, U., Gerlach, T.,
Hartmann, S. and D’Ambrogio, A., 2017,
April. Extending the CMMI Engineering
Process Areas for Simulation Systems
Engineering. In Simulation Science (pp.
193-207). Springer, Cham.