A Study of Software Change Management Problem

Software change management is an essential discipline for enterprise IT organizations. In modern enterprises, software automates a wide variety of business processes. Changes made to software are, in effect, changes made to the business processes themselves. While the majority of enterprises have implemented basic software change management processes, these processes fall down in the face of the increased complexity of today’s business and IT environments. Truly effective and efficient software change management will require better coordination of change across geographic, organizational, functional, and technological arena of IT implemented organization. This paper presents a classification of the change management problems derived from the literature study done. This study explores software change management — the definition and implementation of defined processes to control changes made to software. It also addresses the specific problems in the change management of application software development.