Unifying Project/Change Management

  Change Management   ProjectsAtWork  

A new book emphasizes the integration of project management and change management to improve the chances of success for business, IT and other organizational initiatives.

Project leaders often struggle to ensure that their organizational initiatives are not only deftly planned and executed, but that their project outputs are actually adopted by the organization and used to create business value. The fact is, initiatives are often divided between the technical side (project management) and the more people-focused (change management) side. Unfortunately, this disjointed and often convoluted approach to achieving success has only further contributed to disappointing business outcomes.

In "The Next Evolution: Enhancing and Unifying Project and Change Management", senior project manager Thomas Jarocki thoroughly explores the relationship between the project management and change management disciplines, including the tension that frequently exists between technically-focused project managers and the more people-focused change management professionals. Most important, Jarocki, who has logged nearly 25,000 hours working on major business initiatives, goes on to provide a fully integrated, comprehensive solution for unifying these two critical disciplines.

The 326-page book is divided in two parts. Part One, "The Next Evolution," discusses how most …

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