Anyone in corporate have a really good system or resources to stay organized (particularly investment Funds if possible)? Maybe charts, tables, etc to keep track of changes requested via email, work streams, etc.

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Lots of PMO-style software tools your firm could look into, but you may just need to keep an Excel tab open each day

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You’ve named a few different things. For changes requested, you can keep an issues list. If it’s a key document and it’s important to track every change, you can create a version log.

For work streams, if you have a ton of dynamic dates then excel is helpful. Otherwise I prefer OneNote. How much you do depends on complexity and scope. For simple projects, just a single table with each row for a workstream works. Columns can include goal (text), status (text), status (RAG), last update date, and next step. If too confusing requires

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