National Consensus Standard for Configuration Management

| PRINCIPLE 1-1: | Identify the context and environment for a product to which CM is to be applied to determine specific CM application methods and levels of emphasis. | 13 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-2: | Document how the Organization will implement CM functions to provide consistency among the product requirements, the product's configuration information, and the product throughout the applicable phases of the product's life cycle. | 13 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-3: | Identify resources required to implement the CM functions and ensure they are applied throughout the product's life cycle. | 13 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-4: | Establish procedures to define how each CM function will be accomplished. | 14 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-5: | Conduct training so that individuals understand their responsibility, authority, accountability, and the procedures for performing specified CM tasks. | 14 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-6: | Use performance measures to assess the CM plan in terms of implementation and the effective performance of CM functions. | 14 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-7: | Delegate appropriate CM requirements to suppliers and monitor for CM functional performance. | 14 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-8A: | Establish product configuration information status levels. | 15 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-8B: | Ensure that transmitted product configuration information is usable. | 15 |
| PRINCIPLE 1-9: | Plan for long-term data preservation by addressing the information technologies used to store, retrieve, and interpret data. | 15 |
| PRINCIPLE 2-1: | Define the attributes of a product and its interfaces in the product definition information and use it as the basis for product operational information. | 16 |
| PRINCIPLE 2-2: | Define a product composition which matches its Product Configuration Information. | 18 |
| PRINCIPLE 2-3A: | Use enterprise identifiers on products as well as related product configuration information, to... |