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4. The allocated team members would carry out the activities required to imple-
ment the CR.
5. The additions/modifications would be subjected to planned quality control
activities such as reviews and regression testing.
6. All defects uncovered during reviews and testing would be rectified by the
concerned team members.
7. Once all CRs are implemented, a managerial review of CR implementation
would be carried out by the PM or a person designated by the PM to ensure that
all the accepted CRs are satisfactorily resolved and they passed through quality
control activities. Then all the CRs would be closed.
8. The artifacts would then be promoted to the next stage.

If the CRs were implemented when received or when convenient, the following
steps would be taken to resolve the accepted CRs:

1. The CR would be allocated for resolution to the appropriate set of team
members
2. If the CR impacts an information artifact,

a. The information artifact would be copied to team's folders for modification
so that the original will be unaffected.
b. It would be modified as necessary.
c. It would be subjected to quality control activities, namely the peer review
and managerial review.
d. Any defects uncovered during quality control activities would be rectified
by the concerned team member.
e. After

all defects are rectified, the artifact would receive appropriate

approvals.
f. The current artifact in the configuration management folders would be
moved to the archived artifacts folder and the updated artifact would be
moved to the configuration management's current folders.
g. All concerned team members would be informed of the change in the
artifact.
h. If the CR implementation includes modifying the code artifacts in addition
to information artifacts, the CR would then be passed on to the team
members assigned with the work of implementing the CR in the code
artifacts along with reference to the updated information artifact.

3. If the CR impacts a code artifact, either independently or after an information
artifact has been updated, the following steps would implement the CR in code
artifacts:

(a) The PM would allocate the CR for resolution to an appropriate set of team
members for implementation along with references to any updated infor-
mation artifacts.
(b) The allocated team members would carry out the necessary coding. This
activity would be governed by the coding guidelines for the project.