Change

• Purpose
• Change defined
  • Issue and change control
  • Configuration management
  • Issues
  • Types of issue
• Establish controls
  • Overview
  • Configuration Management Strategy
  • Configuration Item Records
  • Product Status Account
  • Daily Log
  • Issue Register
  • Issue Report
• Configuration management procedure
• Issue and change control procedure
  • Overview
  • Capture
  • Examine
  • Propose
  • Decide
  • Implement
• Responsibilities

Key sections

• Introduction
• Business case
• Organization
• Quality
• Plans
• Risk
• Change
• Progress
• Introduction to processes
• Starting up a projectDirecting a project
• Initiating a project
• Controlling a stage
• Managing Product Delivery
• Managing a Stage Boundary
• Closing a Project
• Tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment
• Directing Projects with PRINCE2

Change defined

Configuration management

Configuration management is the technical and administrative activity concerned with the creation, maintenance and controlled change of configuration throughout the life of a product (or item).

A configuration item is an entity that is subject to configuration management.
The entity may be a component of a product, a product or a set of products that form a release.

For example:

• A component of a product: an electronic motor that is part of a piece of machinery
• A product: a piece of machinery
• A release: a piece of machinery, the refitted machine room, training materials, and the necessary health and safety certificates.

A release is a complete and consistent set of products that are managed, tested and deployed as a single entity to be handed over to the user(s).
Issue and change control procedures need to be integrated with the configuration management system used by the project.

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