Change or Incident

[Adilsonbn]

Hi,

A request to install a program on the desktop should open a change request or can be considered only a request?

What do you think?

[vz-r_Dave]

I believe pre-approved change depending on whether the application has been approved by the business.

Request fulfilment - open a standard or non standard task (request) depending on the application?

[smehdi]

I believe installation of a program would fall under the category of a standard change(Pre-approved).

However if the program does not fall under standard change and you are not aware of the risk linked to it ,Ideally it should go through Change order , which you are refrring as change request.

[UKVIKING]

The answer to the question is as follows

What does your Change management policy state about applications being loaded on the desktop ?

The policy should define what types of changes and examples

the other issues about installation of files on desktop are as follows

policy rights to the machines - user restricted access or what
is application authorized and supported by IT
is it licensed software - seat or blanket license

Now for some detail

A user asking - hey i would like MS Project 2003 installed to my machines
- is a Service Request

The service request will spawn a specific set of actions ./ tasks

If MS project is a limited license s/w - ie only 50 seats / installations, then the actions / task would include some one like that person's manager who would confirm / verify that the individual needs the s/w

this may or may not spawn a change request - depending on what the corp IT change policy is - or the work may merely be a set of tasks to install the work as this is a) a standard change (ITIL) or b) out of scope for Chaneg management

The prime condition is

WHAT THE POLICY DOCUMENT SAYS
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Change Management is POWER & CONTROL. /....evil laughter