Ready to test your change management skills? Read “The Big Switch”, an interactive story that shows the importance of managing change. You’re the project manager of a print magazine that’s going digital, and your decisions determine whether the project succeeds or fails.
New projects, big or small are massive change events potentially affecting people with diverse perspectives, needs, wants and organizational policy/process that cost tens of millions of dollars. Every enterprise will recognize common elements from this theme. Enterprises begin change events both big and small and always with good intentions. No project ever starts to prove some activity can fail or that people are not competent. Too often there is much activity with little effect on the key areas that must be addressed. People, process, systems and technology (in that order) are the poles around which all Planning and execution occur. By addressing these five areas and defining key measures you will have a more impactful and lasting project/change management program.
The author presents a case study detailing the attempts of a company to bring accountability to its inefficient IT operations. After several failed attempts, organizational change is achieved through the establishment of a project management office (PMO). The benefits realized through creation of the PMO are explained along with lessons learned.
The goal of this article is to offer practical strategies that will help you manage change effectively. The background and examples in this document have an IT bias, because the author took many ideas and examples from recent experiences managing change for 2 years in a $US20 million dollar database migration project. This project had it all-extended duration, large number of critical business intelligence applications in scope, two external vendors, and several other "critical" projects taking place in the same time frame. Change had to be managed or change would have devoured the project.
You will have to fight against the gravitational pull of negative organizational climate to achieve the engagement of project workers and others. Use these tactics to help you win the battle.
Project management practitioners will face many change management challenges. The main purpose of this article is to provide standard guidelines, including change request templates, to project, program, and portfolio managers on how to implement an integrated change control system in their organization.
How committed is your organization to making Organizational Project Management a success? Will you have the sustained leadership, organizational change management, and commitment to continuous improvement necessary to succeed? Use this questionnaire in conjunction with Implementing Organizational Change Management, A Practice Guide to help find the answers.
The goal of this article is to offer practical strategies that will help you manage change effectively. The background and examples in this document have an IT bias, because the author took many ideas and examples from recent experiences managing change for 2 years in a $US20 million dollar database migration project. This project had it all-extended duration, large number of critical business intelligence applications in scope, two external vendors, and several other "critical" projects taking place in the same time frame. Change had to be managed or change would have devoured the project.
You will have to fight against the gravitational pull of negative organizational climate to achieve the engagement of project workers and others. Use these tactics to help you win the battle.
Project management practitioners will face many change management challenges. The main purpose of this article is to provide standard guidelines, including change request templates, to project, program, and portfolio managers on how to implement an integrated change control system in their organization.
This document provides the project sponsor, the steering committee and other stakeholders with an understanding of how the change is being received. The status report template allows the project manager to provide the audience members with a high-level view of the status of the change. The template provides them with enough information in order to for them to understand change progress whilst not so much information as to overwhelm them.
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Necessity is the mother of taking chances. - Mark Twain |
