By Michael Sayko - February 2003
Since the establishment of software configuration management (SCM) as a formal engineering discipline, the written SCM plan has been accepted as an essential document for software development organizations. SCM engineers regard the plan as a description of the CM process and an enumeration of the CM procedures to be used on a project or program. Writing an SCM plan is often viewed as the first step in establishing the CM process for a new software development effort.