Abstract: Request definitions associated with respective actions of a workflow identify characteristics of objects utilized in performance of the respective action. Hypothetical in-flight changes that modify the characteristics are anticipated and implemented into the workflow. The actions within the workflow are subscribed to the hypothetical in-flight changes based upon the characteristics identified in the request definitions and modified by the in-flight changes by identifying which in-flight changes affect which workflow actions. Accordingly, when an in-flight is received, the workflow is automatically updated to account for the modifications to the characteristics made by the in-flight change. Specifically, actions that should be undone and/or redone in response to the modification to the characteristics are automatically identified and new tasks are created to undo and/or redo the identified actions.

Abstract: A technique for change management comprising receiving a proposed schedule associated with a change request, determining whether the proposed schedule conforms with preexisting schedule restrictions and does not conflict with a schedule of a preexisting change order, in response to determining that the proposed schedule does not conform with the preexisting schedule restriction or conflicts with the schedule of a preexisting change order, determining a set of potential schedules which do conform with the preexisting schedule restriction and does not conflict with the schedule of a preexisting change order, and providing the set of potential schedules for output, receiving a schedule selected from among the set of potential schedules, storing the change request and schedule in a database table, receiving, from a remote client device hosting an external application, an update task request associated with the change request, and updating a change task database table based on the update task request.