Managing Project Changes - (Assignment)

Running head: DISCUSSION
Part A: Managing Project Changes
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DISCUSSION
Part A: Managing Project Changes
Change management is a necessary need of project management as it has a critical role to
play in ascertaining project success. Change management can be indicated as the process of
managing a change in such a way so that the organizational goals are fulfilled (Lock, 2018).
Project management mainly deals with achievement of the key project requirements, while
change management specifically focus on the people who are impacted by the change. Therefore,
change management becomes an integral need of project management (Kerzner, 2017). The
process of change management mainly ensure use of standardized methods and procedures that
enables prompt handling of the key changes that can affect the outcome of the project. A change
management process generally involves five stages which include acknowledging and
understanding the need for change, communicating the need to the team, developing the plan for
change and implementation of the change (Hornstein, 2015).
On basis of the chosen case, it can be said that the key issues that could lead to any
necessary changes in the project include change in the project specification and improper
planning. In the blue spider project the requirement of change was identified quite late thus
making the change implementation process quite difficult for the project team. Another key issue
that could lead to change management in a project in un-fulfillment of the initial or certain
specific requirements in a project. The change was necessary in the blue spider project since a
week before the final proposal was to be submitted, it was identified that the preliminary design
material could not be operated above 130 °F. The problem faced was quite serious and the
specific requirement of operating the material above 145°F was not possible to achieve without
changing the design material. The change request that is raised in the given case study is to
change the design material or incorporate new materials so that the developed design can be