ABB Automation Products

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How ABB uses CM to Improve the Quality

• Magnus LarssonMagnus.PH.Larsson_at_se.abb.com

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Presentation - Contents

• Configuration Management at ABB
• How to manage SCM
• Requirements and implementation
• Change Management
• Summary

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ABB Worldwide

• 30-billion company
• gt 200,000 employees
• 1000 companies
• 100 countries
• Serving customers with products for
• electrical power generation, transmission and
  distribution
• oil, gas and petrochemicals
• industrial automation

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ABB Automation Products

• 340-million company
• gt 2000 employees
• Development centers in
• Sweden, USA and Germany
• Real-time control systems for industrial
  automation

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Configuration Management at ABB
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SCM at APR

• SCM practitioners 15 years
• Has developed several generations SCM tools
• Is applied on a moving target...

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SCM at APR, infrastructure

• The infrastructure changes

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SCM at APR, tools

• The tools changes

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SCM at APR, problems

• But the problems remains...

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SCM Disciplines

• Version Management
• Change Management
• Configuration and Build Management
• Release management
• Work Space Management

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Version Management
Version 0
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Configuration and Build Management
Ver 1
Item C
Ver 0
Ver 1
Ver 2
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Release Management
Doc
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How to manage SCM
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How to manage SCM?
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CM Policy

• The purpose of CM is to establish and maintain
  the integrity of the products.
• The responsibility for CM for each project is
  explicitly assigned.
• The CM is implemented throughout the product's
  life cycle.
• The CM is implemented for externally deliverable
  products, internal products, and support tools
  used inside the project.
• The projects have access to a repository for
  storing configuration items and the associated CM
  records.
• The CM activities and structures are audited on a
  periodic basis.

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SCM Plan
Project Manager or SCCB makes the SCM Plan!

• Plan for
• CM Resources
• CM Structures and activities
• Tools used in software development
• Identification of the baselines and products
• Change Management specification

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There is a SCM Plan Template
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CM info on APRnet
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SCM Roles

• Project Manager
• Software Configuration Control Board
• SCM Group
• Project Members
• Line Manager
• SQA group

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What is SCM in CMM?
SCM is defined as a process!
CMM requires a systematic approach to SCM.
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SCM Process Overview
Review baselines and new CRs
Review products
Project Manager or SCCB
Create baselines
Integrate products
Prepare SCM structures
SCM Activities
Collect measurements
SCM Group
Check In/Check Out, update CRs
Define new CRs
Project Members
Define states of SCM items and CRs
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How to verify that the requirements have been
implemented
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From Requirement to Implementation

• Change requests are used to track the
  implementation

Keeping Change Control
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How Do we track changes?
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Change Management
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Who is taking care about changes?

• Project Members
• CM responsible person or group
• CCB (Configuration Control Board)
• A technical council - Technical project leader,
  system architects, CM-person, QE
• Project Manager

Every Project has a CCB and CM-person!
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How do we manage changes?
1. We have a Version Management
2. We do Baselines
3. We plan, record and approve changes!
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Tools for Change Management
External Customers
Released products
Beta release
Development
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PMR PROCESS (Maintenance Management)
DevelopmentEnvironment
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PMR Example
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ABB Experience - Summary

• ABB APR has a sophisticated change management
  process
• Necessary for products with high requirements on
  development and maintenance
• products running round the clock 365 days a year
• 10 years guarantee
• A good organization and support for the process
  is required
• Somewhat complicated procedure
• requires training
• a high discipline