Designers produce architectural and detailed designs and maintain these documents throughout the lifetime of the product, producing new versions according to change requests . All configuration management activities must be performed for the design activities for which this person is responsible. Designers must keep configuration management in mind when design work is done. This may be in the form of designing with a view to making changes as easy as possible to implement and making design items easy to place under configuration management, both individually and as deliveries. Designers contribute to the performance of configuration management by
Designers may also be involved with configuration control boards in evaluating event registrations in later development activities. BenefitsOn top of the benefits of placing their own products under configuration management, designers may benefit from configuration management by
ReferencesMore details about relevant subjects may be found in Chapter 16Documentation Activities (Specifications and Design). |