Planning and successfully implementing changes to company software, services, processes and hardware can be quite onerous. Critical operations can be adversely affected by changes which are not properly planned out, reviewed or approved. This can result in lost revenue or damage to the organization’s reputation if external clients are affected, and careers might be at stake if outages occur.

This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides a set of repeatable guidelines for change control methodologies to ensure the highest level of success.

From the policy:

TESTING CHANGES

Wherever possible, a potential change should be tested in advance on non-critical systems to ensure that the work will be successful. This step is also key to identifying the exact steps involved with the change, as well as any potential pitfalls.

The download comprises an eight-page PDF and Word document.

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