An internal control procedure by which only authorised amendments are made to the organisation's software, hardware, network access privileges, or business process etc. This method usually involves the need to perform an analysis of the problem and for the results to be appended to a formal request prepared and signed by the senior representative of the area concerned. This proposal should be reviewed by management (or committee) prior to being authorised. Implementation should be monitored to ensure security requirements are not breached or diluted.

Change control is the process you use to review and approve software changes before they are made. This process may be informal, but it is needed to ensure that the right persons review and approve proposed software changes for budget and schedule impact before making programming changes. Change control is typically an element of a developer's Quality Plan. It is applied in all steps of software development, including requirements definition, design, coding, and testing work.

The process of managing changes to the planned scope, schedule and budget. On small projects this will typically be an undocumented and informal process but on large projects there would typically be a well documented process involving many different stakeholders (a Change Control Board).

or Change Management is the set of structures, procedures and rules governing the adoption and implementation of changes in the commercial or financial relationship between the customer and the service provider.

The procedure to ensure that the processing of all Project Issues is controlled, including submission, analysis and decision-making.

A method for implementing only those changes that are worth pursuing, and for preventing unnecessary or overly costly changes from derailing the project. Change control is essentially an agreement between the project team and the managers that are responsible for decision-making on the project to evaluate the impact of a change before implementing it. Many changes that initially sound like good ideas will get thrown out once the true cost of the change is known. The potential benefit of the change is written down, and the project manager works with the team to estimate the potential impact that the change will have on the project. This gives the organization all of the information necessary to do a real cost-benefit analysis. If the benefit of the change is worth the cost, the project manager updates the plan to reflect the new estimates. Otherwise, the change is thrown out and the team continues with the original plan.

Method of identifying and tracking any activity that alters the scope, deliverables, cost or schedule of a project.

process that ensures potential changes to the deliverables of a project or the sequence of work in a project, are recorded, evaluated, authorised, and managed.

The set of practices around effectively managing changes to the project so that they are raised, assessed, prioritized and implemented efficiently and with known impact on the project.

The process by which a change is proposed, evaluated, approved or rejected, scheduled, and tracked.

A formal system for ensuring that all changes are controlled obtaining approval to make the change reporting planned and emergency changes to systems/processes evaluating impact of these changes on the systems/processes post implementation review of the change final summary and approval of documentation

Principles and processes that facilitate the management of change without compromising the quality or integrity of an IT project or solution, through structured procedures for submitting, approving, implementing, and reviewing change requests.

The process and procedures that manage how changes are proposed, reviewed, and approved and incorporated into a product and its associated data items. Change control is a part of an overall configuration management methodology and uses review and release processes to enforce compliance with company change policies.

The procedure to ensure that all Changes are controlled, including the submission, analysis, decision making, approval, implementation and post implementation of the Change.

The processes, authorizations, and procedures to be used for all changes that are made to the computerized system and/or the system's data. Change control is part of the QA program and should be clearly described in SOPs.

A formal monitoring system by which qualified representatives of appropriate disciplines review proposed or actual changes that might affect a validated status. This is done to determine the need for corrective action to ensure that the system retains its validated state.

Any alteration of the functional or physical characteristics of a project work product. This includes both defect repairs and enhancements.

The procedures used to ensure that all changes made to programs are authorized, tested, and approved prior to implementation.

Process that ensures that potential changes are recorded evaluated authorised and monitored

Influences factors that create any change; including changes to project deliverables. (PMI) The Project-Change Frame® defines it as a formal process through which changes to the way the Project is managed and progressed are approved and introduced.

Change Control is a formal process used to ensure a product, service or process is only modified in line with the identified necessary change. It is particularly related to software development as during the early development of this engineering process it was found that many changes were introduced to software that had no obvious requirement other than the whim of the software writer. Quite often these unnecessary changes introduced faults (bugs) necessitating further change.