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Change request

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˈtʃeɪndʒ rɪˌkwest/nounCommon term

In project management, change request means: A formal request to change something already agreed in the project, such as the scope, schedule or budget. It is assessed and then approved or rejected.

In Turkish: değişiklik talebi, değişiklik isteği

How it is used

Part of change control. Anyone can raise or submit a change request; the project manager assesses its impact, and the sponsor or a change board approves it. Often shortened to CR.

Example sentences

  1. Adding a second language to the website will need a change request, because it affects cost and timing.

  2. The change request was approved, with two extra weeks and an additional budget of 40,000 euros.

Common collocations

  • raise a change request
  • approve a change request
  • change request form
  • change control
  • scopeAll the work, features and results that a project has agreed to deliver, and by extension what it will not deliver.
  • scope creepThe slow, uncontrolled growth of a project's scope, when new features or tasks are added without adjusting time, budget or resources.
  • baselineThe approved version of a project's scope, schedule or budget, saved so that real progress can be compared against it later.
  • steering committeeA group of senior managers and key stakeholders who give a project direction, make major decisions, approve big changes and help solve escalated problems.

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