Enterprise Change Management

Whether from customers, the marketplace, or regulatory bodies, change requests for products demand a rapid, but informed, response. How do you control change across the development lifecycle and throughout the enterprise? And how can you determine the scope and cost of changes before you implement them? You need total control and visibility of change at the enterprise level.

You need the ability to assess and authorize change requests, from both internal and external sources, using a change management workflow customized to your needs.

As part of the approval process, you need to assess the impact of the change on the requirements. So Change Management should tightly integrate with Requirements Management to ensure the change control board fully understands the implications of authorizing a change.

As part of the implementation process, you need to ensure that development activities are traced back to approved Change Requests. Change Management should tightly integrate with Configuration Management to establish full traceability down to the changed CM artifacts. As well as controlling changes, you have to communicate them to stakeholders across the enterprise. But who needs another application on their desktop? Ideally, user access to the change management system would be via a universal client, like a Web browser.

To avoid the risk of defect loss or omission, an integration between change control and test management is important because it ensures that all defects found in the testing phase are identified and their resolution tracked, providing managers with complete visibility on the progress of a project's quality.

Enterprise Change Management, a core process within Telelogic's Application Lifecycle Management solutions, provides an efficient and systematic approach to change control, resulting in greater productivity, higher quality products and faster time-to-market. It provides the ability to support multiple lifecycles beyond simply software development with functionalities such as:

  • change lifecycle management or lifecycle change management
  • compliance support (Sarbanes Oxley, CMMI, ISO....)
  • change request management, issue management, item and defect tracking
  • customer information and action items
  • product lifecycle management
  • project management support
  • integration to Telelogic Lifecycle Solutions and third party applications such as Mercury TestDirector and IBM Rational ClearCase

By providing visibility across the development lifeycle, Telelogic's Enterprise Change Management solution gives organizations automatic and immediate access to meaningful real-time data to manage change more effectively and efficiently.