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Impact Assessment Management

Impact Assessment captures and controls change-impact analysis with traceability reporting and approval lifecycle.

Decision support

This module should answer: what changes, what is affected, and what evidence supports approval.

What You Can Do

  • Create assessments.
  • Add and maintain impact items.
  • Submit assessments for review.
  • Record approvals.
  • Generate traceability reports.
  • Lock and unlock assessments as governance requires.

Typical Workflow

  1. Create assessment for a proposed change.
  2. Add impact items and supporting rationale.
  3. Review traceability report for affected artifacts.
  4. Submit assessment for approval.
  5. Lock approved assessment to prevent uncontrolled edits.

Impact Assessment Lifecycle

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    A[Create Assessment] --> B[Add Impact Items]
    B --> C[Review Traceability Report]
    C --> D[Submit for Review]
    D --> E[Approve]
    E --> F[Lock Assessment]

Key Pages

  • Dashboard and create/detail/update pages.
  • Item add, submit, approve actions.
  • Traceability report.
  • Lock/unlock controls.
Collapsed review guidance

Include references to affected requirements, verification artifacts, and baselines in each approval decision note.

Practical Tips

  • Use assessment lock after approval to preserve audit integrity.
  • Include links to baseline or release decisions in review records.

Governance control

Unlock only when change authority approves rework and ensure the reason is documented.