Best Practices in Mission-Assured, Mission-Critical, and Safety-Critical Systems 61 Configuration Management Plan The Configuration Management Plan strives to provide consistent control over the status of the project and state of the developing product. See the section on configuration management earlier in this chapter for more information. Documentation Plan A project's Documentation Plan strives to provide consistency among all the documents generated in a project. Using the checklist in this document might be sufficient to apply to a project. See the section on documentation earlier in this chapter for more information. Analysis Reports Multiple analyses attempt to understand the feasibility of building a product and the tradeoffs that need to be made before realizing the actual product. Examples of reports and their potential topics that can derive from design procedures follow: