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Role: Change Control Manager

The Change Control Manager role oversees the change control process which the role is also responsible for defining.
Topics - Description - Related Information - Staffing - Further Reading

Description

This section provides links to additional information related to this role.

Staffing

Skills

The person playing the Change Control Manager should understand configuration management principles.  They should be skilled in estimating cost and schedule impacts of change requests. They should be able to communicate effectively in order to negotiate scope changes and in order to determine how each change request should be handled and by whom.

Role assignment approaches

This role is often shared by a Configuration (or Change) Control Board (CCB) and consists of representatives from all interested parties, including customers, developers, and users. In a small project, a single team member, such as the project manager or software architect, may play this role.

Further Reading

See the references page for further information.