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CHANGE CONTROL

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Introduction

Change Control is the process by which requested changes to a projects products or a project's support services are managed, authorised and implemented. Although Requests for Change are seen as 'Issues', as defined by Prince2, it is more effective to manage them separately. Requested changes always have the potential of an impact on Cost, Schedule, Quality, Resource or a combination of all these that may result in a requirement for detailed impact analysis and ultimately the creation of a work order.

Change Control in this sense should not be confused with document version control or any other form of configuration management.

Responsibilities

The Project Manager is responsible for managing the process for his project. The Programme Office is responsible for managing the register and obtaining programme level reports.

Process

A requirement for two distinct types of request for change usually exist within an organisation undertaking project activities:

• Change directly involving the projects specialist products that are to be/are being created by the project team.
• Change required of supporting services such as IT, Office Services etc provided by the organisation that may, or may not, impact on the project budget.

The register, its associated procedure and request form allows for the management of both types of change request though a single change process.

The products provided with this package can be seen here - Change Control Package.
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This package is also a key component of a greater package. To increase your return on investment even further consider our Programme Office Package.

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