Managing Perform Integrated Change Control

The Perform Integrated Change Control process serves as an overseer, so to speak, of the Monitoring and Controlling processes. This is where you establish the project’s change control process. Changes, which encompass corrective actions, preventive actions, and defect repair, are common outputs across all the Monitoring and Controlling processes. (Don’t forget that change requests are also an output of the Direct and Manage Project Execution process, which is an Executing process.) Both processes can generate the change requests that are managed through the Perform Integrated Change Control process.

You’re likely to see exam questions on several topics that involve change and the Perform Integrated Change Control process. Configuration management, for example, isn’t listed as a tool and technique of this process, but you really can’t perform the Perform Integrated Change Control process without it. I’ll discuss this shortly. First, though, you’ll look at change, what it is, and how it comes about.