Author: Haroon Khalil
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Common Project Change Control Challenges
Managing project changes, let’s look at the challenges faced by many project managers. Here’s a list of things to either avoid or be on the lookout for: The Absolute Minimum At this point, you should have a solid understanding of the following: The map in Figure 11.2.
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Powerful Techniques for Minimizing Project Changes
Although we want to be prepared for project changes when they occur, we want to spend most of our energy preventing the need for changes in the first place. The following techniques are powerful change prevention actions we can take:
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Essential Elements of a Project Change Control System
At the heart of managing project changes well is a project change control system. The specifics of project change control systems can vary depending on industry, organization, and project importance, but every change control system should possess certain essential principles, guidelines, and components. Principles Effective project change control systems follow these key principles: Guidelines In…
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Fundamentals for Managing Project Change
There are seven key management principles for effective project change control:
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Fundamentals for Managing Project Change
There are seven key management principles for effective project change control:
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What Exactly Is a Project Change and What’s the Big Deal, Anyway?
A project change is a change in any of the critical success factors (scope, schedule, costs, quality, and project acceptance criteria). The big deal is not that there is a change. In fact, for many projects, changes—especially scope expansions—are expected and encouraged. The big deal is uncontrolled change. Why? Because a change in any of the critical…
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Introduction
For many people, project control equals “managing project changes,” and managing project changes equals preventing “scope creep.” Although this belief is not completely accurate, the perception cannot be ignored. The ability to manage and control the change elements on a project, particularly the project scope, is a key to project success and a key performance…
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Leveraging Earned Value Management Concepts
Earned Value Management (EVM) (otherwise known as variance analysis) is the best project control technique for early detection of performance variances. The technique was developed nearly 40 years ago for the United States government to better manage contract payments to vendors. Ever since, EVM has grown in popularity and acceptance across many industries and now…
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Variance Responses
As previously mentioned, the first goal of our project control system is to prevent any variance. However, we also realize variances and changes will occur—this is the nature of the project beast. Thus, the remaining goals of project control are centered on early detection and appropriate response. Let’s review the general response options that are…
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Powerful Techniques for Project Control
chSo far, we have covered the value and importance of planning your control system. In this section, we’ll take a look at some powerful project control techniques that you’ll want to consider during your planning efforts and then implement during the execution of your project. Caution Make sure your status meetings are scheduled and conducted…