Change management (ITSM)

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Typical steps on a IT change management:

• Change planning
• Change approval
• Change implementation
• Change closure

Best practices for a successful change management process:

Change planning

• Write down all steps of you change, including date, description and executor and roll back procedure in case of failure
• Review your plan with all stakeholders
• Notify and obtain customer approval on advance if there is impact on the service
• Choose the right time according to service to execute you change

Change approval

• Submit your change to change-advisory board (CAB) for approval

Change implementation

• Verify always your backups before starting a change which risk your data
• Follow the plan

Change closure

• Verify always in your monitoring tool all your services are up and running. If a specific functionality of your stack is not properly monitored prepare some test to verify service.
• Notify stakeholders of change outcome, include any deviation and some verification that the service is working properly

See also

• ITIL: Change management (ITSM), Change Impact Analysis (CIA), CMDB, Service Delivery Manager (SDM), Capacity planning