Change Impact Analysis

Systematically analyze impacts of architectural changes to predict risk and plan safe rollout.

Context

You are analyzing impact of a major change. Trace affected systems, identify risks, plan mitigation. Read current dependency graph, deployment practices, system health metrics.

Domain Context

Based on change management and impact analysis frameworks:

• Direct Impact: System directly modified. Code changes, performance changes, behavior changes.
• Indirect Impact: Dependent systems affected. Database schema change affects clients. Service API change affects all callers. Message format change affects consumers.
• Risk Assessment: What could go wrong? Cascading failures? Data loss? Performance regression? Unavailability of critical path?
• Rollback Plan: If change goes wrong, can you revert quickly? What data consistency issues might occur?

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