Change Management Plan
Project integration management is critical to project management. It provides the big picture of the project and how you will plan, manage, and control it. It also looks at how the project fits within the organization. Sometimes the organization will change direction due to a hostile takeover or a merger. The business goals that drive projects will then change, as well as objectives and stakeholders’ expectations. There are other reasons why a change is inevitable. These changes could be due to a mandate of a new CEO, departmental reorganization, or the project objectives are simply not viable anymore.
In almost every project, users request changes when the team is well into the development cycle. Handling those changes requires a process and chain of command. All projects and initiatives will have to comply with and incorporate the PMO-change-control-management policies and follow the procedures and approval process set by the organization’s configuration management board.
Tasks:
For the nearlyfree.com employee orientation project, you are to develop a change management plan using the change management plan template provided.
The project charter and the project scope statement are already completed and provided to you to better understand what the nearlyfree employee orientation project is about.
Based on the project objectives provided by the project charter and the project scope statement, complete the followings using the provided template:
1. Analyze project management office control management standards. 2. Develop an integrated change control process
3. Develop a change management plan appropriate to project management office standards.
4. Develop a change control system for project changes.
5. Integrate appropriate project management knowledge area and process group principles and best practices.
6. Analyze project initiation processes and their contribution to understanding the IT and business requirements of a project.
7. Develop project plans that balance the competing demands of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk.
8. Analyze organizational influences, cultures, styles, and the formal and informal communication approaches with project stakeholders and sponsors.
9. Develop a cohesive set of project planning documents that integrate various project management knowledge areas and the project life cycle.
