{"id":197,"date":"2009-11-11T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/change-freeze\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T22:51:00","slug":"change-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/change-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/SvtAdhEVbdI\/AAAAAAAABJY\/JBaI2VN-SBg\/s1600-h\/stopfreeze.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402983053797977554\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 121px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 80px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_FHKXh6Fis30\/SvtAdhEVbdI\/AAAAAAAABJY\/JBaI2VN-SBg\/s200\/stopfreeze.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This period of inactivity is established to protect the IT infrastructure, application and\/or other business activities from any change activity that may undermine its stability and operation.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>For instance, during Christmas that there is a lot of staff on holidays and each time more and more companies agree this type of stops.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>In addition service providers are happy because they also have fewer problems to achieve SLAs and staff can also enjoy this vacation period.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Everybody knows about this period of inactivity but suddenly they realise that this period is coming and they need to deliver something.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>What\u2019s happen then?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>There is an avalanche of change requests before Christmas, overloading the change management service.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This period of inactivity is established to protect the IT infrastructure, application and\/or other business activities from any change activity that may undermine its stability and operation. 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