Change Management Plan

Definition

The Change Management Plan is a subsidiary plan of the project management plan that describes how changes to the project will be identified, evaluated, approved, and implemented. It defines the change control board (CCB) composition, approval authority thresholds (who can approve what size of change), escalation paths, and how changes will be tracked in the change log. It applies to all baselines: scope, schedule, and cost.

Related concepts

• Governance Domain
• Integrated Baseline
• Monitoring and Controlling
• Planning

Exam angle

• All baseline changes need change control: no exceptions — even urgent changes require a change request before implementation; implement first is always wrong
• CCB is not always a committee: on small projects, the PM may be the CCB for low-impact changes; on large projects, it’s a formal governance body
• Change log vs. change request: change requests are individual submissions; the change log is the running record of all change requests and their status

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