Outcome 12 – Change Management Plan

Students will create a change management plan that follows project management best practices to allow controlled changes to the project specifically for Schedule, Scope, Budget and Resources. The process should analyze the impact of changes to the project objectives and how changes to the overall project get approved or denied. Students may propose an alternative project of their own design that shows attainment of the corresponding course outcome. The mentor must approve the alternative project.

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Change Management Plan

The change management process requires gathering information for evaluation of the need for change. The plan is very critical to the project manager, project team and the sponsor as they complete their responsibilities. Change is vital and inevitable and will have a significant impact on the project objectives. A change will affect the schedule, the scope, budget and resources and hence need to be controlled effectively (Kerzner, & Kerzner, 2017). In practice, a control team led by project manager through the change manager is established. Any stakeholder of the project can propose a change, but it’s only the control team with a responsibility to approve or decline the change. In this construction project there are many tasks, and hence multiple change requests are expected. A change request form is…

 

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