Mission
The purpose of the Configuration Management Working Group (CM WG) is to
- expand the awareness and body of knowledge of Configuration Management over the full system lifecycle,
- capture the best practices,
- collaborate with the other INCOSE working groups to provide the relevant state of the art support to SE,
- develop CM expertise within INCOSE in liaison with the other engineering disciplines,
- collaborate with the standardization bodies and other international organizations and communities with a common interest in CM.
Scope
Our scope spans activities relating to defining, capturing, evolving, and communicating CM processes, methods and best practices. It also addresses how to support state of the art CM implementation and the human aspects (competencies, organizational aspects).
This may include investigations about CM evolution and adaptation to evolving SE context, Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0, as well as collaborate with CM working groups from other organizations.
CM WG will join efforts with other INCOSE working groups such as Requirements, Systems of systems, Digital Engineering, Agile SE, Sustainability, etc. where appropriate, to ensure subject matter expertise is seamlessly integrated into the other aspects of the systems engineering process.
The WG will actively participate in reviewing and providing feedback for the INCOSE SE Handbook and SEBoK, including concrete inputs for the evolution of CM related standards (e.g. SAE 649, ISO 10007) and specifications/guidelines.
The WG will publish CM related practice and research papers (at conferences and in journals within various communities) and produce INCOSE WG Products.
Furthermore, the WG would like to foster pro-active involvement in CM related research projects (including Ph.D. and Master level projects with universities).
Goals
The goals of CM Working Group are to:
- communicate CM fundamentals to systems engineering practitioners over the full lifecycle,
- emphasize the benefits of CM,
- develop the body of knowledge and a community around CM,
- contribute to INCOSE events and INCOSE publications,
- contribute to SE Handbook and SEBoK,
- provide knowledge and expertise on CM in support of other INCOSE working groups in their systems engineering areas,
- facilitate the identification of CM practices to apply in the engineering of complex systems/systems of systems (SoS),
- contribute to the evolutions of norms and standards related to CM,
- expand the CM practices in consistency with the evolution of the SE artefacts,
- address CM of modelling and simulation based approaches to SE,
- address CM throughout the complete lifecycle including early phases and in-service phase,
- address the full scope of CM applications including SW CM, variability of systems, CM tailoring and across multiple programs, CM and ILS, CM and asset management, CM and inventory management, …
- address the evolutions of CM with digitalization, artificial intelligence and augmented reality.