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What are some change management best practices?

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Clarizel Hirschlein Solution Engineering Leader| Salesforce.com Jefferson, Ga, United States
Working through many projects requiring a high degree of change management
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ashwin kumar Project lead| tata consultancy services Secunderabad, Tg, India
Key takeways for best practices of change management

Focus on requirements and success criteria
understanding risk
understand different types of changes
Train your teams
Always keep it simple
Communication is key for best practices
Document everything
Lastly, Automate processes when it is possible
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Clarizel -

are you referring to organization change management or project change control?

Kiron
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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States
Kiron makes a very important distinction. Change management focused primarily on the configuration management of the products and tools to create those products is far more mechanistic than changing behaviors and the more people focused side of organizational change.

Sometimes there is significant overlap such as digital transformation efforts which have a big impact on the peoples' jobs, but the product management side is far more deterministic than the people side where emotional intelligence is especially important.
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Maria Hrabikova
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Ricany U Prahy, Prague, Czechia
Clarizel,
In addition to the constructive and helpful comments made by Ashwin, Kiron, and Keith, from the perspective of Organizational Change Management (OCM), I highly recommend you go through The ACMP Standard for Change Management©, the cornerstone of the change management profession. It's a free and downloadable resource, available here:
https://www.acmpglobal.org/page/the_standard
On top of that, you can delve into discussions on the OCM topic on the ACMP's platform (however, to get more from them, you need to be an ACMP member). https://www.acmpglobal.org/default.aspx

Change management is an enabling framework for managing the people side of change. To develop a structured approach to this exciting discipline and navigate through this people side of change, several change management methodologies can help (many times, the combination of them works best):
a) Prosci - this research organization offers free webinars; plus, you can find free articles published by them.
https://www.prosci.com/
Here is the link to a thought-provoking article by Stephanie Jaeger, "Why You Need a Change Manager," which triggered an engaging discussion about change management among PMI fellow members.
https://www.projectmanagement.com/articles...-change-manager
b) Kotter's 8-Step Change Model
c) McKinsey Change Management 7s

I hope it helps.
I wish you good luck with your projects!
Maria
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
I am in line with @Kiron´s comment above. There is a difference between organizational change management and product/project change management. If you are talking about the last one then I am in line with @Keith comment because it is a matter of configuration control system where, in this case, I recommend going to IEEE standards.
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
I agree with Kiron. You should provide more detail.

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