governance-change-request

Managing change requests with impact analysis involves capturing the requester, description, and affected component, then assessing scope, schedule, quality, and risk. This governance workflow enforces breaking-change checks and requires formal human approval before implementation.

A change request governance workflow standardizes the intake, classification, impact assessment, and approval of modifications. It ensures traceability from request initiation to deployment by enforcing SPEC updates and breaking-change checks for existing modules.

To classify change types during an approval workflow, categorize requests as correction, preventive, corrective, or evolution. This classification triggers the subsequent impact assessment across scope, timeline, quality, and risk dimensions.

Yes, human approval is required before implementing a spec update. The governance workflow enforces formal review and breaking-change checks to ensure traceability and validate that all scope, schedule, and risk impacts are assessed prior to coding.

To start a change request for module modification, submit the requester details, description, and the affected module information. This initiates the governance workflow, applying versioning controls before any formal review begins.

You should not use an automated governance workflow for changes that do not require formal classification or impact assessment. It is specifically designed for modifications needing scope, schedule, quality, and risk evaluation with enforced breaking-change checks.