Change Management

Introduction

We talk a lot about a critical concept - Change Management, and then we do not do it. We need to make sure we have a standardized process that we use before we change anything about our environment and then make sure that we go through that process and get approvals before we make those changes.

Reality

In the real world, what we do is we tend to discuss it and then keep doing what we have always done. We have got the policies in place. We have called defined procedures, but we do not abide by them. Thus, in the end, change management becomes what we do rather than what we say. Even in those environments where we have policies and standards that we do not follow, the good news is that we have standard practices because people repeatedly tend to do the same thing. Therefore, there is a way that changes get implemented. It might just not line up with our documentation.

Why is it important?

Following the procedure is becoming more critical now with the cloud because we can quickly deploy a lot. It is crucial to have policies and procedures to ensure that we ...