Getting Started#

Getting Started on Change Management
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This document describes the steps to create a change request, and further to analyze, implement, and to control the change until closure. Where a change is defined as an introduction of a new feature/component or modification of an existing feature/component.

Examples for change requests:

  • New feature e.g. communication, debugging, health management, cryptography introduced (feature request).

  • Existing feature, e.g. communication supports new protocol (feature modification).

  • New component for parsing a protocol introduced (component request).

  • API change for an existing component (component modification).

Therefore guidelines Feature Request Template (gd_temp__change_feature_request) and Component Request Template (gd_temp__change_component_request), Change Request Guideline (gd_guidl__change_change_request) and a Concept Description (doc_concept__change_process) are available.

General Workflow#

The workflows are defined in the Change Management Workflows section.

For every change identified, the following workflows are executed:

In addition create a change management plan as part of the platform management plan according to Create/Maintain Platform Ma... (wf__platform_cr_mt_platform_mgmt_plan)