PRINCE2 area - Change

Efficient change management in the project is vital. It allows company to develop competence in project management and learn from mistakes. Without having clear principles how to manage project changes Project managers will experience troubles in managing projects. Strong change management practices usually increase reputation of Project managers, unfortunately they often do not understand or know it.

PRINCE2 has strong focus to change management - as it brings integrated project management approach guiding to long term company success in project management competence.

PRINCE2 knowledge areas here will be provided only in executive summary as PRINCE2 standard gives much more details.

GOAL:

Enable identification, assessment & control of changes to project baselines

MUST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES:

Documented change management guide

Decision (change) register must be used

Baselines must be used

Change procedure (identify, assess, propose, decide, implement) must be organized by Project manager

Lessons learned must be aggregated, recorded, passed to future projects as well

TAILORING PRACTICES:

Here are just some limited number of management practices.

All recommended practices you can read in stardard manual yourself or learn it in PRINCE2 trainings.

Use Decision (change) register template aggregated from thousands of projects

Use MoSCoW prioritization technique that is benefit driven

Empower Change authority role on change decisions to reduce load on Project steering comittee

Make separation between User, Business & Supplier driven changes

Recommend for Project manager to use GTD ( daily log) template

Use other quality practices even from other standards if it brings bigger benefit as result for your project

All 7 PRINCE2 knowledge areas:

• Business case - answer to question - WHY we deliver project.
• Organization- answer to question - WHO deliver project.
• Risk management🔺- answer to question - WHAT IF it happens in project.
• Planning- answer to question - WHEN & HOW MUCH in project.
• Quality - answer to question - WHAT we deliver in project.
• Change management- answer to question - WHATS the IMPACT for project delivery.
• Progress- answer to question - HOW it goes to deliver project.

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• Advanced T Risk Manager🔺 (that is based on PRINCE2 practices) Video here & DOWNLOAD here
• Free T Risk lite app
• Free T Progress lite app