Don't Add Meetings/Committees To Your Change Control Process, Add Autotmation
From The Network Automation Journey by Tony Bourke
September 13, 2025 · 9 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the inefficacy of adding more meetings and committees to the change control process in network management and advocates for automation instead.
More meetings, more committees, more reviews isn't going to deliver more reliable network changes. While a formalized process and policies for network changes is important, you hit a point of very diminishing returns: Doubling your meetings or committees or reviews isn't going to halve your error rate. It just adds friction to the process.
People in this episode
Host: Tony Bourke
Topics covered
- network changes
- automation
- change control process
- meetings
- committees
- error rate
- process improvement
Keywords
- network automation
- change control
- meetings
- committees
- error reduction
- process efficiency
- network reliability
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