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# DBIS CHANGE CONTROL BOARD (CCB) CHARTER
## Change Control Board Authority and Procedures
**Document Number:** DBIS-DOC-CCB-001
**Version:** 1.0
**Date:** 2024-01-15
**Classification:** UNCLASSIFIED
**Authority:** DBIS Executive Directorate
**Approved By:** [Signature Block]
**Effective Date:** 2024-01-15
**Status:** Active
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## DOCUMENT METADATA
**Version:** 1.0
**Last Updated:** 2024-01-15
**Effective Date:** 2024-01-15
**Status:** Active
**Authority:** DBIS Executive Directorate
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## OVERVIEW
This charter establishes the Change Control Board (CCB) for the DBIS documentation corpus. The CCB is responsible for reviewing, approving, and coordinating changes to institutional documents.
**Purpose:** To provide structured governance for documentation changes, ensuring quality, consistency, and compliance with institutional standards.
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## CCB AUTHORITY
### Authority Scope
The CCB has authority to:
- Review change requests for documentation
- Approve or reject change requests
- Prioritize change requests
- Coordinate change implementation
- Monitor change progress
- Ensure change compliance
### Authority Limits
The CCB does not have authority to:
- Approve constitutional changes (requires SCC approval)
- Approve statutory code changes (requires SCC approval)
- Override Executive Directorate decisions
- Make policy decisions (only documentation changes)
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## CCB COMPOSITION
### Core Members
**Chair:**
- Documentation Manager
- Responsibilities: Lead CCB meetings, make final decisions, coordinate activities
**Core Members:**
1. **Technical Representative**
- Technical Department representative
- Responsibilities: Review technical accuracy, assess technical impacts
2. **Legal Representative**
- Legal Department representative
- Responsibilities: Review legal compliance, assess legal impacts
3. **Security Representative**
- Security Department representative
- Responsibilities: Review security implications, assess security impacts
4. **Operations Representative**
- Operations Department representative
- Responsibilities: Review operational impacts, assess usability
5. **Compliance Representative**
- Compliance Department representative
- Responsibilities: Review compliance implications, assess compliance impacts
### Ad Hoc Members
**Subject Matter Experts:**
- Invited as needed based on change request
- Provide specialized expertise
- Participate in relevant discussions
**Examples:**
- Financial expert (for financial document changes)
- Governance expert (for governance document changes)
- Technical specialist (for technical document changes)
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## CCB RESPONSIBILITIES
### Primary Responsibilities
1. **Change Request Review:**
- Review all change requests
- Assess change impacts
- Evaluate change feasibility
- Determine change priority
2. **Change Approval:**
- Approve appropriate changes
- Reject inappropriate changes
- Request modifications to change requests
- Set conditions for approval
3. **Change Coordination:**
- Coordinate change implementation
- Assign change responsibilities
- Monitor change progress
- Ensure change completion
4. **Change Documentation:**
- Document all decisions
- Maintain change logs
- Track change status
- Generate change reports
5. **Quality Assurance:**
- Ensure change quality
- Verify change compliance
- Validate change accuracy
- Confirm change completeness
### Secondary Responsibilities
1. **Process Improvement:**
- Identify process improvements
- Recommend process changes
- Implement process enhancements
2. **Stakeholder Communication:**
- Communicate change decisions
- Notify stakeholders of changes
- Provide change summaries
- Address stakeholder concerns
3. **Training and Support:**
- Provide change guidance
- Support change implementers
- Train on change processes
- Answer change questions
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## CCB MEETING SCHEDULE
### Regular Meetings
**Frequency:** Monthly
**Schedule:**
- **Day:** First Tuesday of each month
- **Time:** 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- **Location:** [Meeting location or virtual]
- **Duration:** 2 hours
**Agenda:**
1. Review pending change requests
2. Discuss change priorities
3. Make change decisions
4. Review change status
5. Address issues and concerns
6. Plan next steps
### Special Meetings
**Frequency:** As needed
**Triggers:**
- Urgent change requests
- Critical issues
- Major changes
- Emergency situations
**Schedule:**
- Called by CCB Chair
- Minimum 24-hour notice (except emergencies)
- Duration: As needed
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## CHANGE REQUEST PROCESS
### Change Request Submission
**Submission Methods:**
- Change request form
- Email to CCB
- Change management system
- Direct submission to Documentation Manager
**Required Information:**
1. Change request ID
2. Requestor information
3. Change description
4. Rationale
5. Affected documents
6. Impact analysis
7. Proposed timeline
8. Resource requirements
9. Priority classification
### Change Request Review
**Review Process:**
1. **Initial Review:** Documentation Manager reviews for completeness
2. **Impact Analysis:** Assess change impacts
3. **Technical Review:** Technical representative reviews (if technical)
4. **Legal Review:** Legal representative reviews (if legal)
5. **Security Review:** Security representative reviews (if security)
6. **CCB Review:** Full CCB reviews and decides
**Review Criteria:**
- Change necessity
- Change impact
- Change feasibility
- Change compliance
- Change quality
- Resource availability
### Change Request Decision
**Decision Options:**
1. **Approve:** Change approved for implementation
2. **Approve with Conditions:** Change approved with specific conditions
3. **Request Modifications:** Request changes to change request
4. **Reject:** Change request rejected
5. **Defer:** Change request deferred to future meeting
**Decision Factors:**
- Change necessity
- Change impact
- Change compliance
- Resource availability
- Timeline feasibility
- Quality considerations
### Change Request Implementation
**Implementation Process:**
1. Assign implementation responsibility
2. Create implementation plan
3. Implement changes
4. Review implementation
5. Verify changes
6. Approve implementation
7. Publish changes
8. Notify stakeholders
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## CCB DECISION-MAKING
### Decision Authority
**CCB Chair:**
- Makes final decisions
- Resolves conflicts
- Approves routine changes
- Escalates major changes
**CCB Members:**
- Provide input and recommendations
- Vote on decisions (if voting required)
- Review and approve changes
- Support decision implementation
### Decision Process
**Routine Changes:**
- CCB Chair reviews
- CCB Chair decides
- CCB Chair documents decision
**Standard Changes:**
- CCB reviews
- CCB discusses
- CCB decides (consensus or majority vote)
- CCB documents decision
**Major Changes:**
- CCB reviews
- CCB discusses
- CCB recommends
- Escalates to Executive Directorate
- Executive Directorate decides
- CCB documents decision
### Voting Procedures
**When Voting Required:**
- Non-consensus decisions
- Major changes
- Controversial changes
- Requested by any member
**Voting Rules:**
- Majority vote required
- Chair votes only in case of tie
- All members must vote
- Decision documented
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## CCB DOCUMENTATION
### Meeting Minutes
**Required Information:**
- Meeting date and time
- Attendees
- Agenda items
- Discussion summary
- Decisions made
- Action items
- Next steps
**Distribution:**
- All CCB members
- Executive Directorate
- Change requestors (as relevant)
- Documentation team
### Change Log
**Required Information:**
- Change request ID
- Change description
- Decision
- Decision date
- Implementation status
- Completion date
**Maintenance:**
- Updated after each meeting
- Maintained by Documentation Manager
- Available to all stakeholders
### Reports
**Monthly Report:**
- Change requests received
- Change requests reviewed
- Change requests approved/rejected
- Change implementation status
- Issues and concerns
**Quarterly Report:**
- Summary of changes
- Change trends
- Process improvements
- Recommendations
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## CCB MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES
### Individual Responsibilities
**All Members:**
- Attend meetings regularly
- Review change requests
- Provide timely input
- Participate in discussions
- Support decisions
- Maintain confidentiality
**CCB Chair:**
- Lead meetings
- Coordinate activities
- Make decisions
- Document decisions
- Communicate with stakeholders
- Manage CCB operations
**Core Members:**
- Represent department interests
- Provide expertise
- Review relevant changes
- Support decision-making
- Implement approved changes (as assigned)
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## ESCALATION PROCEDURES
### Escalation to Executive Directorate
**Escalation Triggers:**
- Major structural changes
- Policy-impacting changes
- Compliance-critical changes
- Multi-department impacts
- Constitutional changes (to SCC)
- Statutory code changes (to SCC)
**Escalation Process:**
1. CCB identifies escalation need
2. CCB documents escalation rationale
3. CCB Chair escalates to Executive Directorate
4. Executive Directorate reviews
5. Executive Directorate decides
6. CCB implements decision
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## CCB EFFECTIVENESS
### Success Metrics
**Metrics:**
- Change request processing time
- Change approval rate
- Change implementation success
- Stakeholder satisfaction
- Process compliance
**Targets:**
- Process change requests within 5 business days
- Maintain >90% change implementation success
- Achieve >4/5 stakeholder satisfaction
### Continuous Improvement
**Improvement Activities:**
- Regular process reviews
- Stakeholder feedback
- Process refinements
- Training updates
- Best practice adoption
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## RELATED DOCUMENTS
- [Change Management Process](Change_Management_Process.md)
- [Configuration Management Plan](Configuration_Management_Plan.md)
- [Document Control Standards](Document_Control_Standards.md)
- [Update Trigger Procedures](Update_Trigger_Procedures.md)
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**END OF CCB CHARTER**