Documents updates need change requests?

Here comes an answer for other Sergio located at the end of the world (Argentina). Some people forgot that all related to project change management must be supported by project configuration management. The PMI has an standard and while I was part of the creation (and I will be part of the new version) as one component inside the group of authors and reviewers I dont like it really. But you can search for IEEE standards regarding change management and configuration management and no matter you could find software related you can use it without problem. Inside the configuration management process you will find an step to decide about what you will consider a configuration item and the states that configuration item will have while it evolves. Each thing you have defined as configuration item must be handle inside the change request process when the state has to be changed.

Not every project document update needs to go through a Change Request Procedure. I agree with Sergio (from Argentina) that the key trigger for this is within configuration management and linked to specific configuration item. Whenever you change/ add a configuration item that has an impact on the solution scope/ scope baseline it must go through a Change Request Procedure.