6.1 Change Management Concepts

Controlling software development projects depends upon such factors such as project size, project complexity, required development/test/production environments, deployment and other issues. For instance, 3 developers maintaining an application on a single system will have different requirements from an international company with 30 developers using 10 systems in 3 different countries. Obviously different projects will require different strategies.

Considerations

The following topics should be included in any discussion of change management:

Possible Scenario

A simple change management scenario might be:

As more products, types of objects, machines, interfaces and operating systems are introduced, the challenges of change management increase.

There are many 6.1.5 Third Party Packages that can be integrated with the LANSA environment to provide comprehensive change management solutions for the complete LANSA family of products.

LANSA provides an easy to use suite of basic change management features that are designed to be used as part of company's overall change management strategy and procedures.

Further Information

6.1.1 Object Locking Concepts   

6.1.2 Task Tracking Concepts  

6.1.3 Impact Analysis Concepts  

6.1.4 Deployment Concepts  

6.1.5 Third Party Packages