Change Management Software

Do you want to be able to respond flexibly to new requirements and unforeseen change requests? With change management for your projects, in-STEP BLUE enables you to evaluate, approve, and implement change requests in a structured manner – transparently and efficiently.

Integrated change management strengthens stakeholder confidence and significantly increases the project’s chances of success.

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With in-STEP BLUE you make full use of processes and procedures for your change management. Customizable and tailorable to the needs of your organization.

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With in-STEP BLUE, elicting and detecting changes is as simple as it gets. With structured and easy-to-use forms you have an instant overview of each and every change, at any time.

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Changes constantly affect other aspects of the development processes in your projects; be it individual requirements, documents, products or other elements.

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In in-STEP BLUE all forms as well as the procedures and operations in the background are easily and quickly customizable.

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The criteria applied are individually configurable, as well as notifications and views, e.g. for critical changes.

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Change management and project management in one single software.

Manage projects with processes.

Customers change their opinions. They add new requirements, change existing ones or prioritize differently. Which is a good thing; because ultimately the aim is to develop the best product possible. With in-STEP BLUE you control operations and projects in one single software, based on your processes for eliciting, structuring and managing changes. For effective change management and high-quality products.

Why change management?

The term Change Management describes all tasks and activities related to the elicitation, evaluation, prioritization, documentation, controlling and tracing of changes as well as their implementation. Change Management is an integral part of many industry sectors, e.g. automotive, medical technology, mechanical engineering, plant engineering or construction. Business Processes such as V-Modell XT or PRINCE2, maturity models like CMMi or SPICE as well as norms and standards are also focusing on Change Management. If you look for change management software while adhering processes, then in-STEP BLUE is the right choice.
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What information do you need?

Project and their contents change constantly. Customers change their opinions. Departments refine their concepts. Sponsors reprioritize. Managing these changes is part of daily business for companies. It includes change tracking and structured elicitation; analysis and evaluation; the planning of measures. Effective change management is only possible in an integrated software solution. With a software that supports you processes and procedures, with configurable forms and support for effective requirements, risk, test case and project management. for instant access to your changes, at any time.

How does in-STEP BLUE support you?

in-STEP BLUE is many-faceted. You can plan and manage projects with in-STEP BLUE. But projects are subject to constant change. Resources are reallocated; changes are added; technical problems arise. An integrated software solution provides you constant and frictionless access to your individual procedures for change management. As change management software in-STEP BLUE offers at the same time requirements management, test cases and risks. For individual projects or entire organizations. Effective rights and role management included.

Change management within your team

With in-STEP BLUE you and your team work in a shared software package. Every staff member can concentrate on their task, they remain informed of new developments—provided they have the corresponding rights—and can work on all aspects that pertain to their roles. Best of all, the system doesn’t have unnecessary intersection points with other tools. You can define the information that you would like to change, the kinds of relationships that should exist between various artefacts as well as the number of figures you require for your evaluations. That way you can make good decisions with a single change management software package.
Change Request Form in in-STEP BLUE

With in-STEP BLUE, you can easily record changes. Simply use a preconfigured form.

Change Request with linked elements in in-STEP BLUE

Changes often affect other aspects of a project, such as schedules, documents, requirements, etc. With in-STEP BLUE, you can manage all project information in a single system, making it easy to define and track relationships between different elements.

Change Request with referenced product in in-STEP BLUE

Of course, you also have many options available when dealing with change requests. You can view differences between different versions of a change request, change statuses, or navigate directly to affected elements—in this case, the Excel document “Customer Requirements.”

State machine for a change request in in-STEP BLUE

Speaking of statuses: in-STEP BLUE makes it easy to define the statuses that a change request can go through, as well as the corresponding status transitions. You can also use statuses to send automatic notifications, for example, when a ‘requested change request’ has been ‘approved’.

Independent review request in in-STEP BLUE

Do you want to carry out separate, formal checks as part of a defined process? No problem, because you not only define statuses, but can also specify the entire handling of changes according to your requirements. This gives you optimal support for dealing with all changes that arise.

Change Requests from in-STEP BLUE in MS Excel

And if you want to display changes in separate tools—for example, to create charts in MS Excel—just one click is all it takes to export the information in the desired format.

Click here for a list of functions of change management with in-STEP BLUE
  • Manage, categorize and evaluate change requests.
  • Define attributes and customize request forms.
  • Version change requests, access their history and determine changes.
  • Create individual reports and evaluations at the push of a button.
  • Create estimations of costs and efforts for impact analyses.
  • Relate change requests to requirements and identify risks.v
  • Easily document and manage change requests and all related data.
  • Define individual access and editing rights as well as role-specific views.
  • Custom-tailor change management procedures and adjust it to the needs of your organization.
  • Keep your team up-to-date on all changes and news and improve communication.
  • Instant notifications and confirmations for all users.
  • Task assignment for scheduled change realizations.
  • Easy monitoring of all change requests and their individual states.
  • Integrated configuration monitoring for the entire life cycle.
  • Include change requests in documents.
  • Customizable templates for change realization.
  • Adjust change management to your specific needs.
  • Customizable reports and evaluations.
  • Check lists for change management operation.
  • Define guidelines for handling of changes.
  • Create workflows for specific tasks and roles.
  • Patterns for the utilization of methods.
  • Improve quality through methods and business processes in your organization.
  • Combine change, configuration and project management as well as quality assurance.
  • Individual key figures for reporting.
  • Support your team with helpful guidelines.

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What users say about in-STEP BLUE

Thanks to in-STEP BLUE our audits are now completely hassle-free and more efficient, in particular because of the full traceability and control in-STEP BLUE offers even for individual processes. The auditors were impressed, too.

Martin Horn

Martin Horn

Project Manager, SurgicEye GmbH

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