Build: change and delivery · ITIL 4 · Design & transition · Obtain/build

Changes and maintenance windows

Changes with impact calculated before submission and dates only within maintenance windows.

ITIL 4 practice · Change enablement

Illustrative screenshot: Changes and maintenance windows

What it does

  • Change models with steps and lead time, impact calculated before submission
  • Slots only inside maintenance windows, outside freezes and collisions
  • Controlled items change state only through a change, including maintenance and retirement
  • Change calendar, rolling execution and a post-change review

Measurable benefits

  1. Change success rateshare of changes completed without issues and without alerts afterwards
  2. Overdue changesnumber of changes not completed on the planned date
  3. Incidents caused by changenumber of incidents with a change marked as their cause

The application calculates these indicators from your own data, so you can prove the improvement with numbers from the first month.

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