Project Change Management Assignment

Project Execution and Control
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Introduction
While any project team desires to ensure that a project is completed as per the initial plan,
sometimes changes may become necessary for the successful implementation of a project
(Burke, 2013). This report explores the various aspects of project change management.
Question 1.Time, cost, and quality impacts of the change in the project and the techniques used
to manage them.
Time
There are very few projects that are completed according to the initial plan. While change
can be viewed as inevitable, Change control processes put in place can be the bridge between
project success and failure. Each project has a specific duration upon which it should be
completed in its desired form. Project changes such as widening the scope can lead to delays
which can lead to a project being completed later than it was scheduled although this requires
additional budget (Helgason,2011). On the other hand, changes aimed at reducing the scope of
the project can lead to the completion of a project before its scheduled completion time. Project
time can be managed through increasing the budget or reduction of project scope
(Heldman,2013).
Cost
Cost is an important aspect of any project. Successful completion of a project can be
defined based on the completion of a project within its initial budget. While each project has a
finite budget, sometimes project changes may become a necessity. The impact of this is that it

can affect a project either positively or negatively. Project changes focused on reducing the
scope of a project can have a have a positive impact on the budget by minimizing it while
changes aimed at increasing the scope can escalate the budget beyond the initial
estimates(Snyder,2013).Project cost can be managed by maintaining the initial project scope or
reducing it through the elimination of unnecessary activities.
Quality
Projects must meet certain deliverables that are usually established beforehand. A project
is deemed to have been completed in the desired quality if it has met its various objectives within
time and budget estimates. Project changes that increase the scope of a project without increasing
project’s budget, time or both can lead to the completion of a project whose quality is below the
intended quality (Blomquist,2010)
Quality, time and cost of a project can also be managed through continuous monitoring by the
project team.
Q2. Options to satisfy the change request and any associated risks for each change
Project change requests occur when an alteration or an additional deliverable is required
by the client of the project. Several options can be used to satisfy change request for various
projects.
Filling of change request form
This is the first step in the change request. The client fills a change request form in which
they state the actual request, the reason for the request including negative impacts of not