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What's The Difference Between Change Request and Approved Change Requests?

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
What's The Difference Between Change Request and Approved Change Requests?
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
What's The Difference Between Change Request and Approved Change Requests?

Since I already know most of your standard replies for this, to save us some time, I'm going to post a follow up question....

Does that mean that all Change Requests that are stated as inputs and outputs are un-approved change requests?

In case you're wondering yes, you have CRs as inputs and CRs as outputs, take a look in you PMBOK.

In case you're also wondering yes, you have approved CRs as inputs and approved CRs as outputs, take a look in you PMBOK.
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HAITHAM ELSALAMOUNY Project Manager| ALKAN Arabia Giza, Giza, Egypt
Change Request Pass Through CCB Board & Came from Execution & Planning Process Pass Through Monitor & Control With Change Control Board May be Approved or not & tracked In Change Log Either Approved or not , On The other Hand Approved change Request O/P From Control Process & Performed in execution process & Lead to updating all Plans & Base Lines After that Inform All Stack holders AAbout Change that may be defec repair or corrective action Or Update.
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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
A change request can originate from any of the Monitoring and Controlling processes and Most of the Executing processes.
A change request can be a Defect repair, a corrective action or a preventive action
A change request could impact the Baselines - Cost, Schedule and Scope and therefore needs to be analysed for it's Impact on the different project constraints - The triple constraints plus Quality, Human Resources, Communications, Risks, Procurements.
The Changes MUST pass through Integrated Change Control in order to avoid Scope Creep , Traceability through the Project Life Cycle and maintenance of the Integrity of the Baselines.

Until the Change Control Board approves it , the change is simply a Change Request . The Integrated Change Control Process , results in Approved Change Requests and a Log of Change Requests (Change Log), whether approved or Rejected , which need to be communicated to the stakeholders via "MANAGE STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT"

Approved Change Requests are inputs to
Direct and Manage Project Work
Plan Procurement Management
Control Quality - which has a tool and technique called as Approved Change Requests Review .....The output is Validated Changes . What Control Quality is essentially doing is checking if the Preventive Action , Corrective action or the Defect Repair has been performed appropriately and if the change has been validated.
Once the change has been validated , the PMP is updated, any relevant project documents are updated, the Performance Measurement Baseline is readjusted (time, cost, scope). The project manager then continues project delivery according to the new adjusted baseline.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
A Change Request may or may not be approved. Approved Change Requests were already approved and can be actioned in Direct and Manage Project Work.
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LORI WILSON RETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint Health Clarkston, Wa, United States
Hello George - You like to make us think! I agree with my colleagues on this one. Change Requests are submitted to a governing body. At my company, it is the CAB (Change Advisory Board). This governing body approved the Change Requests.

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