In this month’s CMsights we speak with Lisa Fenwick, Vice President of CMstat, to ask her the most important questions about performing Configuration Management Assessments. Lisa is a CMPIC Certified CM Assessor with 15 years’ worth of successful CM Assessments from over 25 years of CM experience. Lisa serves as the lead instructor for CMPIC’s Course 7 – CM Assessor Certification.

This month’s CMsights looks at the why, what, who, and how of performing a Configuration Management Assessment (CMA). But first, what exactly is a CMA?

A CMA typically provides a fact-finding review and independent analysis of current CM-related processes, plans, performance gaps, best practices support, personnel competencies, standards adherence, and deployed software. A comprehensive CMA will also identify and prioritize prospective improvements to any elements found deficient.

In this month’s CMsights we begin to explore the value of a Configuration Management Assessment using configuration management maturity models developed specifically for the practice of CM. This follows our April 2020 article on Configuration Management Assessments. In that post, we presented an example configuration management checklist of questions that…

A frequent question we hear from aerospace and defense industry executives is how can they perform an assessment of the performance of their organizations, programs, and products with regard to the practice of Configuration Management. CMstat has learned over our several decades that the underlying concern of managers, which triggers…