Dec 02, 2019 4:55 PM
Replying to Keith Novak
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The PMBOK is written to cover all cases from the largest to the smallest so in reality not everything applies every time.
Not all changes require a formal request or approval. What is required depends on the organization's standards, and the specifics of the change. Consider a very small change early in a project. It might be within the authority of a work group to make that change on their own authority.
To decide that they can make the change without any other approver requires that they actually reviewed it themselves to determine that it meets the organization's requirements. It is still an integrated change, because you decided that no external impacts mean no further integration is necessary. Even if another group must authorize the change, ALL changes must be reviewed by the party requesting the change before they are presented to anyone else for review.
You woudn't ask someone else to review your work before first checking it for errors. If a change had to go through multiple boards such as team level, functional level, and executive level, each reviews their own change request prior to moving to the next level. Often, there may be a checklist or some set of requirements such as cost data, schedule impact, etc. that accompany the change request.
In fact, how well you review your own work will set the expectations for how much others feel they need to review it. If you always go to a change board with all important aspects considered, you will have more trust and get less oversight over time than if you are someone who requests changes with many open questions.
