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revision vs. version

I am kicking off some process improvements at a new company. One of the areas to concentrate on first is CM. I was asked during a briefing of what I am doing what is the difference between revision and version. I gave my explanation and then followed up with an email of the following link: http://www.product-lifecycle-management.com/plm-revision-version.htm

What I would really like to know is do most places use revision or version as the main identifier and why the preference to one or the other? I have my preferences, but would like an opinion from the community.

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Mark Avatar asked Jul 07 '10 19:07

Mark


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2 Answers

In my experience, revision is more of an internal term that matches up with the unique identifier of a check-in or build. Version is a label of a released product so that you know whether the version is newer or not than what you have.

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eruciform Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 18:09

eruciform


In my view, versions are used when the configuration item features are different or more than the previous one. While revisions is the number of times that you find error and fix in the same version i.e., functionalities remains same but the errors are fixed.

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Gajendra K S Avatar answered Sep 19 '22 18:09

Gajendra K S