1.Managing Project Changes Why is change management a necessary component of project management?
2.What processes or strategies do you think would work best to analyse , assess and manage changes to the given project?
3.Recall any tools or techniques you have used to stay organised and keep professional projects on track. How have these tools and techniques helped you to manage change? Perhaps you created schedules using software like ProjectLibre or Microsoft Project. Or, potentially, you created a task list using MS Word or an application on your mobile device. Maybe, you used an issue tracking software to monitor progress.
1.Change management is considered to be an important component of project management as it helps the project manager or any member of the higher authority to control the course of the project and bring it to the right path. In many projects, especially in medium and large scale projects, it is often found that scope creep occurs causing significant unwanted outputs from project and the project to move out of scope (Letens, Verweire & De Prins, 2016). Once the project is allowed to move out of scope for a significant amount of time, the damages cannot be recovered and the project will be considered as incomplete and failure. Change management ensures the project is controlled at the right time with the right measures so that it can be executed accordingly. In order to introduce change management measures, it is important to identify the challenges and issues that have given rise to the scope creep and other issues. Once the challenges are identified, suitable solutions are to be developed, analyzed and implemented accordingly.
2.There are several applicable processes for analyzing, assessing and managing changes in a project. However, for the given project of Corwin Corporation, a specific method needed to be followed for continuation of the relationship with the client and complete the project. Due to lack of sufficient planning and sufficient amount of specific courses of action mentioned in the contract signed between Corwin Corporation and Peters Company, courses of action of various project stakeholders became much for complex and resulted in the growth of personal problems between stakeholders (Kerzner, 2018). For initiating the implementation of change management, Dr. Reddy took some strict steps that were not well taken by one of the stakeholders. In this case, he needed to call team meeting and discuss with each and every personnel regarding the changes before implementing them.
3.Tools like Microsoft Project or ProjectLibre can help to develop change management strategies by creating project schedules. A sample change management strategy developed using MS Project is shown in the below diagram. Additionally, task lists can be created using MS Word or any other similar application that will help to schedule and implement change management in the project.
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Figure 1: Project Schedule using MS Project
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References
Kerzner, H. (2018). Project management best practices: Achieving global excellence. John Wiley & Sons.
Letens, G., Verweire, K., & De Prins, P. (2016). Large Scale Infrastructure Projects: The Art of Project or Change Management?. Frontiers, 3, 003.
