Configuration Control

According to Lee/Owens there is only one step in the configuration control procedure and that is creating the plan. Your plan can be as complicated as you want it to be, but the more complicated it is the slower the project will progress. You should keep both an electronic and hard copy of your plan, so that if one or the other is lost or corrupt then you have a backup.
According to Lee/Owens example of how the plan process should flow: first the plan starts with the author who gives it to the gatekeeper, then the gatekeeper gives it to reviewers to review, then they give it to gatekeeper who returns it to the author, then the author makes changes and gives it back to the gatekeeper to start the cycle over again until no further changes need to be made.