The KPIs & Metrics of IT Change Management
The key performance indicators for change management are:
1. The number of changes that were implemented to services which met the customers agreed
requirements
Ex: Changes made in quality or cost or time
2. Lowering number of service interruptions caused by incomplete or poor assessment of
changes
Reduction in the number of defects and quantity of rework caused by inaccurate specifications
3. Fall in the number of unauthorized changes
4. Reduction in the number and percentage of unplanned changes and emergency fixes
5. Improving success rate in the Change implementation (percentage of changes deemed
successful at review/number of RFCs approved)
6. Reduction in the number of changes where reversal or modifications is called for.
7. Declining number of failed changes
Improving the number of successful changes
8. Improvement in the average time to implement changes based on the factors of change like
urgency/priority/change type
9. Incidents which contribute to the change.
10. Increasing accuracy in the percentage of change estimates