After our last post on the Challenges of Implementing Configuration Management, a reader asked if the impediments to deploying configuration management were very different between a modest-size single-production facility versus a large multi-national multi-site enterprise. Our answer was both “No” and “Yes.”

Throughout CMstat’s history we have witnessed firsthand numerous obstacles that high-tech industries, like aerospace and defense, have experienced when implementing a Configuration Management (CM) strategy with supporting software tools. As with many new or rapidly-evolving technologies, most barriers in the successful deployment and adoption of CM are not overly technical in nature. Instead, they tend to be educational, organizational, procedural or contextual at their core.