Change Management Plan
How can change management plan improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?
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Purpose. Use this plan to define how programme changes are proposed, assessed, decided, implemented, verified and communicated. It coordinates change across components and evaluates consequences for programme outcomes, benefits and other affected programmes rather than treating each request in isolation. Application. Develop the plan early, make it available to stakeholders and refine it through the lifecycle. Combine applicable organizational change-control standards with programme-specific authority, configuratio
Use context
Purpose, application, discipline.
Purpose
Use this plan to define how programme changes are proposed, assessed, decided, implemented, verified and communicated. It coordinates change across components and evaluates consequences for programme outcomes, benefits and other affected programmes rather than treating each request in isolation.
Application
Develop the plan early, make it available to stakeholders and refine it through the lifecycle. Combine applicable organizational change-control standards with programme-specific authority, configuration and reporting requirements.
Completion discipline
Complete the document from current evidence, name its owner and approving authority, and link the plans, registers or decisions that support it. Retain approved versions and review the document whenever a material assumption, dependency, requirement or governance decision changes.
Field summary
Structured sections without protected files.
Document control
Program name, Program manager, Program sponsor, Actual start date
A. Purpose
Purpose
B. Change process
Definition of the change process
C. Change type
Change type
D. Controlled items
Identification of controlled and configuration items
E. Evaluation and approval
Change evaluation and approval processes and procedures
F. Change control
Change control
G. Status and metrics
Change status accounting and metrics
H. Verification and audits
Change verification and audits
I. Document updates
Updates to other documents
J. Approvals
Program manager, Program sponsor, Program management office director, Governance Board chairperson
Protected resources
Included resource formats.
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