Free Change Impact Assessment Template
A change impact assessment answers one question before you commit: what does this change actually touch? Not the plan, not the budget — the teams whose day changes, the processes that have to be rewritten, the systems that need reconfiguring, and the customers who will notice. Write those down and the shape of the work stops being a guess.
Skip it and the same information arrives anyway — just later, and more expensively. It turns up as the team who found out in the go-live email, the process nobody owned, the second project quietly changing the same system in the same fortnight. A change impact assessment is cheap at the start and unaffordable in the middle.
What's in the template
Teams × processes × systems, so you can see at a glance which parts of the business a change actually lands on — and which ones nobody has spoken to yet.
Rate each impact for how hard it lands and how ready that area is to absorb it. The gap between the two is where your delivery risk lives.
A prompt list for the question most assessments skip: what else is hitting these same teams, processes and systems in the same window?
Who agreed the assessment, when, and on what basis — so the decision is on the record rather than in someone’s inbox.
Excel format, no macros. Built by a change-delivery practitioner — it is the working version, not a brochure.
Get the template
Tell us where to send it and it's yours — you can download it on the spot, no waiting on an email.
When the spreadsheet stops scaling
A template works beautifully for one change. It stops working the moment there are five, because the thing that hurts you is no longer inside any single assessment — it is the overlap between them. Stratavue keeps every change, deadline and decision in one live view, and surfaces the collisions before you commit rather than after.