Change Control Principles

There are seven key principles that you should follow when implementing change control:

• a project manager needs to develop a method for identifying changes
• changes must be addressed in a timely manner
• reviewing, assessing, and deciding whether requested changes should go ahead are main activities of change control
• only approved changes should be implemented
• project baselines should be changed only when necessary
• approved changes must be coordinated across all the project management knowledge areas, such as cost, time, and scope management
• the impact of approved change requests must be documented