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Lean configuration management: a conundrum

2 June 2017 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

How does a purely internal activity like configuration ma­nage­ment add value to customers? Would a customer gladly pay you for your configuration ma­nage­ment ac­ti­vi­ties? Keeping your con­fi­gu­rations under control is hardly value adding in the same way as, for example, increasing the utility of a service. And yet, good configuration management under­pins virtually all service […]

Filed Under: Configuration management Tagged With: added value, aviation industry, change control, class of service, CMDB, configuration control, intangible, kanban, lean management, non-added value, poka yoke, value stream, waste

Configuration Management at Home

2 April 2014 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

About two months ago I acquired my third laptop in about six years. My first laptop started having a series of troubles on the day that I left for Hong Kong – and the day that volcano in Iceland erupted, causing the airspace in Europe to be closed for more than a week. It was […]

Filed Under: Configuration management Tagged With: at home, CMDB, configuration management, laptop, overheating

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