Best Practice Report

Overcome Change Management Paralysis

The Basics Still Apply, But You Don’t Need A Change Advisory Board

March 29th, 2022
Julie Mohr, Principal Analyst
Julie Mohr Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Lauren Nelson , Charles Betz , Chris Langlois , Diane Lynch

Summary

Infrastructure and operations (I&O) practitioners are questioning the relationship between traditional IT change management and development practices such as agile and DevOps. The change management process serves important purposes of communication, coordination, risk management, and governance. Problems emerge not from the process itself but from how I&O organizations interpret outdated best practices and implement change management. This report helps I&O practitioners weave change management into the end-to-end digital value stream.

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