Reengineering Configuration Management for use in a Model Driven Design Environment

Abstract -- In the past, Configuration Management (CM) has managed documents that describe products and services organizations produce. The processes and the technologies used in traditional CM environments are typically labor intensive, slow and costly. In the new model driven design environment (MDDE), configuration management needs to be reengineered to provide the basic functionality of CM (i.e. identification, control, reportability and verification) as well as provide improved and better CM processes through the infusion of new information technologies. By extending existing technologies and stream-lining processes to take advantage of these technologies, it is possible for a reengineered CM process to provide JPL the speed, flexibility and ease of use that are required to meet the realities of shorter development cycles. This paper will discuss the current state of configuration management, what is needed to support a model driven design environment and propose a range of technology infusions that would begin with simple mechanisms and gradually introduce increasingly powerful technologies on appropriate parts of a project’s information and modeling data sets.

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