Project Management

Keep the Change

Kathleen Ryan O'Connor
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An international IT project management veteran (and poet) shares some thoughts on the importance of change management, including why so many companies do it poorly and how it can enhance instead of stifle creative thinking. Indeed, embracing projects in flux is the only way to move your agenda forward in turbulent times.

After years of managing international IT projects within large corporations and mulitcultural environments, Crispin “Kik” Piney, PgMP, is now a freelance consultant and principal at Project-Benefits.com, a project management consultancy based in Valbonne, France. Piney is also a lecturer with ESI International and a noted speaker on all aspects of project management, from cost control to change management. He most recently presented at the PMI Global Congress in Amsterdam May 18-20.
 
Piney recently spoke with ProjectsAtWork about how change management is not only critical to achieving project goals, it must be kept alive throughout the lifecycle of an organization. He even shared a Haiku on the interrelated subjects of change, stakeholders and impossible missions. 
 
Why is change management so important?
Before answering that question, I would like to make sure we understand that the term “change” is used in at least three different ways in projects: there is the change the project is …

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