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Service Name
Change Control
Description This service provides controls that protect availability and quality of services while changes are made to the IT infrastructure and services.
Service Line
ITS Administration
Features
  • Record and classify changes as they are requested
  • Publish and communicate which changes have been requested as well as status and implementation success or failure of changes
  • Coordinate activities to agree and approve or reject requested changes on a timely basis to meet business needs
  • Coordinate activities to identify service and technical impacts associated with requested changes
  • Coordinate activities to validate change success and close changes
  • Schedule post implementation reviews for changes that meet specified criteria to require them 
  • Track and report on progress of changes as they proceed from request to review to implementation to closure
  • Maintain and track change requests as defined in the ITS department Change Management Policy
  • Build, manage and maintain the ongoing list of standard changes
  • Presents change requests for approval at ITS directors meetings
  • Manage and maintain Forward Schedule of Changes
Service Administrator (owner) Jennifer Queen
VP Customer Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean
Availability Defined Maintenance windows, approval by ITS Directors at weekly meeting
Support How to use form
Initiated Submitted RFCs (Request for Changes)
Charges n/a
Delivery channels
  • Completed RFCs
  • Post notifications for approval/rejection
  • Published forward schedule of changes
  • Consulting support
 Prerequisites Completed form to specifications required
 Key Service Targets
  • Change Success Rate (1-Failed Changes/Changes implemented)
  • Change Efficiency Rate (Changes Implemented/Changes in Pipeline)
  • Emergency Change Rate (Changes approved by CIO not CRB/Total Change)
  • Change Reschedule Rate (Changes Rescheduled/Total Change)
  • Unauthorized Change Rate (Change Detected/Total Changes Implemented)
  • Change Incident Rate (Number changes resulting in incidents/total change)
  • Percentage of changes within maintenance window

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Phone: 864-294-2000