Change Management Policy
Defines how changes to Your Organization production systems are proposed, reviewed, approved, implemented, and documented — including CAB, change classifications, rollback, and emergency change handling.
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Purpose
Unplanned or unreviewed changes are a leading cause of outages and security incidents. This policy defines how changes to Your Organization production environments are proposed, reviewed, approved, implemented, and documented, balancing the need for agility with the need for predictability and auditability.
Scope
This policy applies to all changes affecting Your Organization production systems — application code, infrastructure, configuration, network and security controls, identity configuration, data pipelines, and production data. It applies to every workforce member and third party that initiates or executes such changes.
9 more sections in the full template
Change classifications · Change Advisory Board (CAB) · Required elements of every change ticket · Segregation of duties · Access to production · Emergency changes · Unauthorized changes · Scope exceptions · Review cadence. Download the full document above, or open it in CMDash to fill in your organization name and effective date automatically.
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