Chapter 1. Introduction to the Guide Second Part

I cut the past post, because it was very long, then this is the second part with the other KAs

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT KA

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is the discipline of identifying the configuration of software at distinct points in time for the purpose of systematically controlling changes to the configuration and of maintaining the integrity and traceability of the configuration throughout the system life cycle. This KA includes six subareas.
The first subarea is Management of the SCM Process. It covers the topics of the organizational context for SCM, constraints and guidance for SCM, planning for SCM, the SCM plan itself, and surveillance of SCM.
The second subarea is Software Configuration Identification, which identifies items to be controlled, establishes identification schemes for the items and their versions, and establishes the tools and techniques to be used in acquiring and managing controlled items. The first topics in this subarea are identification of the items to be controlled and the software library.
The third subarea is Software Configuration Control, which is the management of changes during the software life cycle. The topics are: first, requesting, evaluating, and approving software changes; second, implementing software changes; and third, deviations and waivers.
The fourth subarea is Software Configuration Status Accounting. Its topics are software configuration status information and software configuration status reporting.
The fifth subarea is Software Configuration Auditing. It consists of software functional configuration auditing, software physical configuration auditing, and in-process audits of a software baseline.
The last subarea is Software Release Management and Delivery, covering software building and software release management.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT KA
The Software Engineering Management KA addresses the management and measurement of software engineering. While measurement is an important aspect of all KAs, it is here that the topic of measurement programs is presented. There are six subareas for software engineering management. The first five cover software project management and the sixth describes software measurement programs.
The first subarea is Initiation and Scope Definition, which comprises determination and negotiation of requirements, feasibility analysis, and process for the review and revision of requirements.
The second subarea is Software Project Planning and includes process planning, determining deliverables, effort, schedule and cost estimation, resource allocation, risk management, quality management, and plan management.
The third subarea is Software Project Enactment. The topics here are implementation of plans, supplier contract management, implementation of measurement process, monitor process, control process, and reporting.
The fourth subarea is Review and Evaluation, which includes the topics of determining satisfaction of requirements and reviewing and evaluating performance.
The fifth subarea describes Closure: determining closure and closure activities.
Finally, the sixth subarea describes Software Engineering Measurement, more specifically, measurement programs.Product and process measures are described in the Software Engineering Process KA. Many of the other KAs also describe measures specific to their KA. The topics of this subarea include establishing and sustaining measurement commitment, planning the measurement process, performing the measurement  process, and evaluating measurement.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS KA
The Software Engineering Process KA is concerned with the definition, implementation, assessment, measurement, management, change, and improvement of the software engineering process itself. It is divided into four subareas.
The first subarea presents Process Implementation and Change. The topics here are process infrastructure, the software process management cycle, models for process implementation and change, and practical considerations.
The second subarea deals with Process Definition. It includes the topics of software life cycle models, software life cycle processes, notations for process definitions, process adaptation, and automation.
The third subarea is Process Assessment. The topics here include process assessment models and process assessment methods.
The fourth subarea describes Process and Product Measurements. The software engineering process covers general product measurement, as well as process measurement in general. Measurements specific to KAs are described in the relevant KA. The topics are process measurement, software product measurement, quality of measurement results, software information models, and process measurement techniques.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TOOLS AND METHODS KA
The Software Engineering Tools and Methods KA includes both software engineering tools and software engineering methods.
The Software Engineering Tools subarea uses the same structure as the Guide itself, with one topic for each of the other nine software engineering KAs. An additional topic is provided: miscellaneous tools issues, such as tool integration techniques, which are potentially applicable to all classes of tools.
The Software Engineering Methods subarea is divided into four subsections: heuristic methods dealing with informal approaches, formal methods dealing with mathematically based approaches, and prototyping methods dealing with software development approaches based on various forms of prototyping.

SOFTWARE QUALITY KA
The Software Quality KA deals with software quality considerations which transcend the software life cycle
processes. Since software quality is a ubiquitous concern in software engineering, it is also considered in many of the other KAs, and the reader will notice pointers to those KAs throughout this KA. The description of this KA covers three subareas.
The first subarea describes the Software Quality Fundamentals such as software engineering culture and ethics, the value and costs of quality, models and quality characteristics, and quality improvement.
The second subarea covers Software Quality Management Processes. The topics here are software quality assurance, verification and validation, and reviews and audits.
The third and final subarea describes Practical Considerations related to software quality. The topics are software quality requirements, defect characterization, software quality management techniques, and software quality measurement.