What is an Integrated Change Control?
Integrated change control is the discipline of reviewing every change request, assessing its impact across all constraints — scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, resources — and approving or rejecting it through the right authority before anyone acts on it.
"Integrated" is the point: a scope change is never just a scope change; it ripples into the schedule and the budget. The exam pattern is rigid and worth memorizing: assess impact → document a change request → take it to the change control board → if approved, update the baselines and plans → then tell stakeholders and implement. Jumping straight to "just do it" is the classic wrong answer.
Worked example
Mid-sprint, a client asks a software team to add single sign-on. The PM doesn't say yes or no. She sizes it — three weeks, $28K, delays two other features — writes it up as a change request, and the CCB decides. The client, seeing the real cost, defers it to the next release. That's the process doing its job.