Change Management Procedure

[Phoenix]

If you can provide any ammunition here I would be most grateful.
As the change manager I wrote our procedure. Our Operations manager has been given the opportunity to make suggestions and edits to the procedure and of course has made what I consider unreasonable suggestions.
First I do not think it is acceptable to allow the person held in compliance of said document to make edits to it. Second, he has made suggestions like, eliminate the weekly CAB meetings and only meet in person if requested so then we would have rolling electronic approvals.
The point I am trying to get across to my manager is that the OPS manager may review for accuracy but it is my job to make sure that it meets NIST guidelines and secures our production environment and he should not be able to make edits to the procedure as he see’s fit.
Comments?
Thanks!

[Diarmid]

[UKVIKING]

Phoenix

If you work for the Operations manager, then he has an obligation . responsibility to tell youhow to do your job as he is your boss.

If not.. tell him to F off... well not really

1 - You need to have a CM policy document that categorically states about meeting and not tool clicks

2 - you need a CAB policy that defines the frequency, make up, scope etc of the Change Board.

3 - you need to get the common manager to you two to sign off or the senior-ist mgmt wonk to do so.

Then you can tell him to f off by pointing to the policy by incorporating the policy in the process and procedures
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John Hardesty
ITSM Manager's Certificate (Red Badge)

Change Management is POWER & CONTROL. /....evil laughter

[Phoenix]

thanks for the feedback. We do have policy and procedures that state everything. It states that the CCB meetings are in person along with many other things. Our documents are periodically reviewed and this review cycle the Applications manager made many 'suggested' edits. One was to eliminate in person CCB meetings and do electronic voting. I am the change manager and do not want to change our current in person format. The senior manager will make the decision on what to do - App manager reports directly to him. My opinion is that I think that giving the app manager the ability to write/edit the document is like having the fox guard the hen house.
I do not see him as much a customer as a compliant entity. My customers are the agency and the business offices who request that we implement things safely within our live environment.

I wont argue that there is a lack of teamwork which to me translates to issues with leadership and direction. Eventhough that may be lacking, it does not mean that I should not try to do what I was hired to do - support a process that protects production. Removing more exposure from the process does not achieve my goal.

[UKVIKING]

Then you have a process issue and a toxic peer

The process is the document review process

Does any pinhead have the authorization to make changes to policy documents

or

Are suggestions made and some owner of the process for the documented process get the final say

As for the toxic peer .. if he is in your mgmt food chain, then you need to go to the common mgmt chain and get him to pull his nose out of your area.

This is NOT ITIL per se.. but office mgmt / politics
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John Hardesty
ITSM Manager's Certificate (Red Badge)

Change Management is POWER & CONTROL. /....evil laughter