Managing Change in Large Teams

Kenneth has 14 years of healthcare experience in government and private industry. Over eight years of experience managing healthcare IT projects, operations, contracts, and personnel. His work experience includes project management, contracts and procurements, data analysis, claims adjudication, business writing, and business process modeling. Kenneth was certified in 2006 as a Project Management Professional.

  Change Management   Communications Management  

When you are executing a project of any scope, there is bound to be change involved for the organization. When that change impacts a large team involved in multiple divisions or offices (or even organizations), managing this change can be very difficult.

If the change is not implemented and managed correctly, then it could spin out of control. Instead of the positive impact expected by the stakeholders and management team, the project will end up causing chaos, confusion and rework. The project manager should work closely with the project team or teams to ensure that the change is managed well and implemented correctly.

Evaluating
The first step is to evaluate the change. You need to know what the change is and how it will impact the project and the project team. This does not mean just evaluating how the change affects you; it means looking at the change in the context of the entire organization and project or projects.

For example, if you are changing the process for updating the project schedule or the software used for the schedule, you need to evaluate who is involved in that change. It is not just the one person or small group with access to update the schedule; it could include everyone who provides input to the schedule, and it could also impact everyone working on the project if they need to change how they record or report their progress on tasks and …

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