Software
change management is an important discipline for an IT enterprise. In
today's modern day IT enterprises, software automates a wide
selection of business procedures. Software changes are in effect to
the alterations made to the business processes. For instance, the
manner in which an insurance agency offers life insurance policy
quotes is encoded in its quote engine. Any unplanned alterations in
the quote would also lead to unplanned changes in the quote types
that the firm offers. Therefore, software changes need a careful
management exactly the way a business process change does, as both
are interrelated.
Without
a systematic change
management process,
IT organizations lack a complete understanding of the way the
software running in production automates their business process. This
comprises managing changes in software development, production and to
related artifacts such as models, requirements and test cases. This
also comprises the management of both individual changes as well as
the coordination of dependant changes.
Furthermore,
the new age development language techniques and tools are placed in
IT enterprises in a manner to cater to the business requirements for
speed by significantly increasing the productivity of the
organization development. However, the increased productivity also
tempts IT shops to roll software into production without applying any
apt controls. This can result in wastage of more money than what got
saved when the productivity increased. Maximized adoption of
componentized software infrastructure is one of the crucial technical
drives for an improved change management.
Today
solution providers specializing in agile
methodology have
introduced advanced change management solutions that offer the
following benefits:
· Simple
to use -
Users can use it with very less training.
· Has
a single repository for application lifecycle entities -
This means entities like Use cases, Requirement
management,
Change items, Test cases, Issues, Change packages and others are
available in one repository. This effortlessly integrates change with
other entities and leads to an improved cross-entity visibility.
· Offers
a two-way requirements
traceability association -
End users can create or update Change package as they enter the
change items. They can view the Change package status from Change
items and can also manage Change items from Change package.
· Offers
a process driven methodology -
The solution enables enterprises to define their own change
management procedures. As soon as the process is defined the system
guides the specified resources for conducting the appropriate
functions.
Furthermore,
advanced change management solutions tracks and manages the software
changes optimally with reactive and proactive impact analysis all
through the software
development life cycle.
Automated change management process can be deployed and enforced for
minimizing the chances of things going beyond hands to manage.
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