As a project manager, you know that the larger or more complex a project is, the less likely you are to get to the end without any changes. A change, in and of itself, is not necessarily a problem. The issues typically arise when sometime later someone comes along wanting to know all of the details of that change; Whose idea was it? Who gave their approval for the change? How much extra did it cost the project?
It’s your job to have all of this information to hand and provide answers to these questions, no matter how many projects you are juggling or how long it has been since the change was made. That’s where the change request form template comes in. A simple way to log all change requests, never again, do you have to say, “Um, let me get back to you on that.”