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 Duration 14 hours (2 days)

Course Outline

Introduction

  • Contextualizing the challenges of configuration management
  • Overseeing changes across the system lifecycle
  • Handling product diversity and variability

Core Principles of Configuration Management

  • Reviewing the lifecycle and assessing change impacts
  • Review procedures
  • Establishing baselines
  • The four foundational pillars of configuration management
  • Managing configuration items
  • Configuration management processes

Practical Exercise – Operational Changes

  • Presenting a real-world scenario involving client, project, or product changes
  • Group discussion focused on impact analysis
  • Defining and sharing an action plan

Advantages of a Product Line Strategy

  • Limitations of adapting single products
  • The necessity for centralized variability management
  • Benefits and return on investment from product line engineering

PLE Concepts and Standards

  • Defining the product line
  • Walkthrough of examples
  • Reference standards (ISO)
  • Identification of variation points
  • Concepts of Superset and Assets

Feature Modeling Tools

  • Introduction to
  • Feature models
  • Variants Description Model

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  • Feature modeling using
  • Relationships between feature models and superset
  • Practical application with Excel
  • Practical application with Word

Getting Started

  • Implementing configuration management practices
  • Introducing variability into existing systems

Integration

  • Incorporating CM and PLE into engineering workflows
  • Comparing tool-supported versus tool-independent approaches

Troubleshooting

  • Common pitfalls in CM and PLE
  • Best practices

Summary and Future Steps

  • Recap of fundamental concepts
  • Recommendations for implementation

Exercises

  • Case study analysis and group work
  • Hands-on activities with and without tools 

Requirements

  • A solid grasp of systems engineering processes, including requirements, architecture, and verification & validation (V&V)
    Experience with these domains
  • Delegates should be familiar with the following prior to attendance:
    • Fundamental knowledge of system lifecycle processes
    • Working knowledge of engineering workflows and product development

Target Audience

  • Project managers
  • Systems engineers
  • Software engineers
  • Product managers

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