About the Change Management Policy Generator

The Change Management Policy Generator walks you through the essential sections of a change management policy. It prompts you for the information you already know about your environment and turns it into a structured, readable document.

Instead of starting with a blank page, you capture each part of your process, from who can request changes to how they are evaluated, approved, implemented, and reviewed. The tool assembles this into a single policy you can adapt for internal use, audits, or training.

• Defines purpose, scope, and governance for change management.
• Clarifies roles, responsibilities, and decision authority.
• Describes change categories, risk assessment, and approval paths.
• Supports documentation, metrics, and continuous improvement.

The Change Management Policy Generator mirrors the sections you would expect to see in a modern policy that supports IT operations, security, and audit teams.

• Basic information, where you describe your organization, the purpose of the policy, and the systems or environments it covers.
• Roles and responsibilities, where you define who requests, reviews, approves, implements, and verifies changes, including any Change Advisory Board.
• Change types, where you describe categories such as standard, normal, and emergency change, along with examples.
• Request and approval process, where you outline how changes are proposed, assessed, approved, rejected, or deferred.
• Risk and impact assessment, where you capture how you score risk, evaluate impact, and choose the right approval path.
• Implementation, communication, and testing, where you describe deployment planning, stakeholder communication, pre change and post change testing, and fallback preparations.
• Documentation, metrics, and continuous improvement, where you define record keeping needs and how you use change data to improve over time.

When you select “Generate Policy” in the tool, these sections are combined into one document that you can review, edit, and align with your internal standards.

The generator takes inspiration from common change management practices found in IT operations and security frameworks. It does not implement any framework in full, but it helps you speak the same language.

• IT service management practices, which highlight the importance of formal change control, risk assessment, and post implementation review.
• Security and control frameworks, which expect documented processes for changes that can affect confidentiality, integrity, or availability of systems and data.
• Audit and assurance expectations, which often require evidence of approvals, testing, and consistent application of change procedures.

You can reference specific standards, such as internal IT governance, ISO style control families, or cloud provider guidance, inside the generated policy where appropriate.

The Change Management Policy Generator runs entirely in your browser. All logic is implemented in client side JavaScript, and the text is assembled locally on your device.

• No policy content is sent to a server while you use the tool.
• No change data, system names, or approval details are stored by CyberLife Coach.
• Exports create text files directly in your browser for you to download and manage.

Even so, policy text can still contain sensitive information about systems, processes, and roles. Store the generated policy in the same secure locations you use for other internal documents, and share it only with people who need to see it.

A change management policy is part of your broader governance and risk management program. This generator helps you draft that policy. It does not review or approve changes, connect to ticketing systems, or enforce the process you describe.

Many organizations align their change management policies with other documents, such as incident response plans, access control policies, or vendor management practices. You can reference those relationships from within the policy you generate.

If you are unsure whether the policy meets a specific requirement, consult your legal, compliance, or audit team before adopting it formally.