An element of configuration management consisting of the evaluation, coordination, approval or disapproval, and implementation of changes to configuration items after formal establishment of their configuration identification. (See “configuration management,” “configuration identification,” and “configuration item.”)

1. This glossary is from Appendix C of Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-004.
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