Once you have in place basic change management that describes a process for
configuration updates, the communication methods that are used, and how to
schedule a change, you can use some other change-management techniques
to improve stability at your site. In particular, you can create automated
front ends for common configuration updates that perform all the locking,
revision history, checking, and updating for the SAs. You should also institute
formal change-management meetings with cross-functional change councils
to review change proposals.