Project Management 4. Managing Project Change
Week 4
Managing project change
In Project Management
There are 2 Types of change (that we talk about)
Change Control Change Management &
Change Control
You had a plan
Now things are changing
What are you going to do?
What are  ____________  going to do? you
2% requirements creep per month ( www.IAG.biz , 2008)
baseline control communicate value
Measure change against your  baseline http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsome1/477085398/
Control the change with a  process http://www.flickr.com/photos/m-c/181007636/
Communicate,  always communicate
What’s the value of the change? http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahwesley/120499365/
The other type of change
Change management
People Change management
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Managing Change Organizational Change Organizational Culture Project Manager and Change Avoiding Failure
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Timing is everything Scheduling projects to not all hit the users at once
Volume of change Change fatigue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Why change? SWOT
Responses to change Make a list of positive and negative responses - +
How do you  feel   when you  have to tell  others things are changing?
How do you  feel   when  you are told   things are changing?
John Kotter’s 8 steps Establish a sense of urgency Create a coalition Develop a clear vision Share the vision Empower people to clear obstacles Secure short-term wins Consolidate and keep moving Anchor the change
Invite people to participate
Customers who get a chance to complain and are then satisfied are more loyal than customers who have never had a problem.
resistance
culture
Figure 1.3  Organisational cultures  (Cadle & Yates, 2005, p7)
Figure 1.4  Sociability/solidarity matrix  (Cadle & Yates, 2005, p9)
Figure 3.7  Key dimensions defining and organizations culture  (Gray & Larson, 2006, p74)
Figure 3.9  Cultural dimensions of and organization supportive of project management   (Gray & Larson, 2006, p76).
The pm as a change agent
Project success depends on change
Stages in a change program: Launching the project Winning hearts and minds Skilling the end-users After go-live
aa bb cc identify  audiences  and the  actions  you want identify the  barriers  which audiences have and tell them about the  benefits  that will result choose  communication  channels and  controls that you will use to check understanding
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10steps
Kotter’s 8 steps
Successful projects have planned for change
Someone is accountable for change management
 
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The project management process - Week 4