Change Management
A critical component of project monitoring and control is change management. As business requirements and operating environments change all the time, the project manager has to manage change throughout the software development cycle from acquisition,
supply, development, operation, and then maintenance. The guiding principles, techniques, and tools for change management are discussed in this chapter.
Automated Tools for Change Management
Tools for Configuration Management
Configuration management tools, commonly called software libraries or code libraries, have been around since the early 1970s (see Table 18-5). The more sophisticated, newer models make version and variation management simpler by supporting complex functions, such as conditional compilation.