Scenario 1

Bob works in a large IT software organization as a developer. Bob is working on a bug that he needs some help with. With a proper Configuration Management strategy in place, Bob could easily automate the recreation of his bug environment (the virtual machine used for his local testing and bug recreation efforts) so that both he and his coworker can work on the same bug simultaneously and with minimal fuss in recreating the environment.

In this case, Bob managed to effectively use Configuration Management techniques to not only save his coworker a significant amount of time recreating the bug, but also to remove potential human errors from the equation.