Activity: Monitor & Report Configuration Status

This activity provides visibility to configuration change activity through ongoing monitoring and reporting.

Description	Work Breakdown Structure	Team Allocation	Work Product Usage

Relationships

Parent Activities	Configuration & Change Management

Description

This activity is focused on:

Ensuring that artifacts and their associated baselines are available.
Determining if required artifacts are stored in a controlled library and baselined.
Supporting project Configuration Status Accounting activities.
Facilitating reporting of change request information, especially the activities related to work performed against defect and enhancement requests.
Ensuring that data is "rolled-up" and reported for the purposes of tracking progress and trends.

Properties

Event Driven
Multiple Occurrences
Ongoing
Optional
Planned
Repeatable

Staffing

The person playing the Role: Configuration Manager in accordance with the Configuration Management Plan needs to provide quantitative reports that can be used to assess the project status.

Usage

Usage Guidance

This work is applicable throughout the project lifecycle, beginning as early as the Inception phase.

This work is not considered optional, although project culture will mean this work will vary from low-ceremony to a high-ceremony undertaking, and will increase in complexity the larger or more distributed the project team becomes.