You are the director of maintenance for Regional Airline Corporation (RAC), a U.

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You are the director of maintenance for Regional Airline Corporation (RAC), a U.S. regional airline. Knowing that the company is desperately seeking cost savings to allow it to remain competitive, you explore the option of contracting-out the corporation’s major aircraft maintenance to an unrelated company specializing in that kind of work. You find that outsourcing the major maintenance could result in substantial savings to the corporation as compared to the present practice of doing all maintenance in house, with employees of the corporation.

What person or group within the corporation would have the authority to approve this fleet change? Explain.

What written record, if any, should be made of the decision approving this fleet change?

Explanation / Answer

1. A change Control Board (CCB) is a group of formal people responsible for approving this change. The primary function of the board is to provide guidelines for preparing change request, evaluating change request and managing the implementation of the approved change. An organization could have key stake holder for entire group are in this group and few members could rotate based on unique needs.

2. All the members including the project managers should use written and oral performance reports to help identify and manage change. Meetings will be taken on daily, weekly and monthly basis to monitor the changes and their development.

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