📋 Business Analysis & Process · Swimlane
Software Change Request Swimlane
How a change to a production system is requested, assessed, approved by the change board, built, tested and released.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Business analyst impact assessment
- Change Advisory Board approval gate
- Test failure loops back to development
Prompt used
Swimlane map of a software change request: a business user raises a change request, the business analyst writes requirements and an impact assessment, the change advisory board approves or rejects it, developers build it, QA tests it and sends defects back to development, and the release manager deploys it to production.
Mermaid code
flowchart LR
subgraph Biz["👤 Business User"]
direction LR
S(["Start"]) --> A1["Raise change request"]
E(["Change live"])
X(["Change rejected"])
end
subgraph BA["📋 Business Analyst"]
direction LR
B1["Write requirements"] --> B2["Assess impact"]
end
subgraph CAB["🏛️ Change Advisory Board"]
direction LR
C1{"Approve change?"}
end
subgraph Dev["💻 Development"]
direction LR
D1["Build change"]
end
subgraph QA["🧪 QA"]
direction LR
F1{"Tests pass?"}
end
subgraph Rel["🚀 Release Manager"]
direction LR
G1["Deploy to production"]
end
A1 --> B1
B2 --> C1
C1 -->|No| X
C1 -->|Yes| D1
D1 --> F1
F1 -->|No| D1
F1 -->|Yes| G1
G1 --> ERelated templates
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