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title: Risk conditions and calculation
description: Change Management features provide ways to calculate and assess the risk of change requests, and to identify and resolve conflicts.
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release: australia
product: Change Management
classification: change-management
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Analyze change request risk and impact, Reference, Change Management, IT Service Management]
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# Risk conditions and calculation

Change Management features provide ways to calculate and assess the risk of change requests, and to identify and resolve conflicts.

Risk assessment and calculation assists you with understanding the urgency and impact of change requests. [Conflict detection](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/c_ConflictDetection.md) assists you with scheduling change requests for the least impact to stakeholders. This features minimize the risk and cost of rapid changes in your environment.

-   **[Risk Calculator property](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/r_ChangeRiskCalculator.md)**  
The Change Management - Change Risk Calculator plugin enables dynamic calculations of the risk and impact of a change. The administrator specifies how and when risk and impact rules are applied.
-   **[Add or modify risk and impact conditions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/define-risk-and-impact-conditions.md)**  
You can define risk calculation rules on which the risk and impact of a change are calculated. Change Management - Change Risk Calculator is activated by default in the base system.

**Parent Topic:**[Analyze change request risk and impact](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-service-management/change-management/change-risk-conflict-analysis.md)