Project Management: Change Management Report - Talent Contest

This report focuses on the change management plan for the "Talent Contest" project, outlining how changes within the project will be handled. It begins with an introduction to change management, setting expectations and defining the roles and purpose of the change control board. The report details the change management approach, ensuring changes are reviewed, defined, agreed upon, and communicated to stakeholders. It defines various types of changes, including scheduling, budget, and procurement changes, and describes the structure and responsibilities of the change control board. Roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders are defined, and change control processes are outlined, from identifying the need for change to implementing approved changes. The report references key project management resources, providing a comprehensive overview of change management practices within the context of the Talent Contest project.

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Table of Contents
Change Management.......................................................................................................................2
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................2
2. Change management approach................................................................................................2
3. Definition of change................................................................................................................3
4. Change control board...............................................................................................................3
5. Roles and responsibilities........................................................................................................4
6. Change control processes........................................................................................................5
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................6

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Change Management
1. Introduction
The project mainly reflects on the change management plan for the “Talent Content”
which is mainly developed in order to make some changes in the project. It is identified that the
change management plan is created for setting expectations that how the changes within the
project will be managed. It also elaborates the role as well as purpose of the change control board
and the entire management process. All the project stakeholders are generally expected to submit
the changes as per the plan of change management.
2. Change management approach
The change management approach for the project “Talent Contest” helps in ensuring that
all the changes are reviewed, defined as well as agreed so that it can b easily communicated as
well as implemented to all the project stakeholders (Fleming & Koppelman, 2016). This
approach helps in ensuring that only the changes that are present within the project scope should
be implemented as well as approved. The change management approach mainly comprises of the
following:
 Ensuring that the changes are preset within the scope
 Determining the procedure in which the changes are implemented
 Managing the changes that are implemented

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3. Definition of change
It is identified that there are number of changes that are generally considered as well as
requested in the Talent Contest project. It is identified that the type of change that are included
are as follows:
Scheduling changes: It is identified that changes within the scheduling will create
impact on the approved schedule of the project (Heldman, 2015). These changes generally needs
fast tracking as well as re-baselining of the schedule as per the impact.
Budget changes: It is found that changes within the budget will create impact on the
approved budget of the project. This type of changes within the project budget requires
requesting about additional funding, releasing funding that is no longer needed. It may need
changes within the cost baseline of the project.
Procurement changes: The changes within the procurement will create impact on the
approved procurement plan of the project (Verzuh, 2015). It is identified that the items that are
required for the contest as well as contract are added which including stage equipment,
marketing equipment, security equipment and more.
4. Change control board
The change control board is defined as the approval authority for the entire change
request that generally pertains to the talent contest project. The main purpose of the cost control
board is to review all the requests for the change and to determine the impact of the project,
scope, cost as well as schedule for approving or denying change request (Schwalbe, 2015). The
following chart helps in providing a list of change control members for the talent contest
project:-

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Position Role
Project sponsor Approves the changes within the project
Project manager The project manager helps in overseeing the
entire project
Organizer The organizer organizes the changes that re
requested in the talent contest project
Supervisor The supervisor supervises the changes within the
project.
5. Roles and responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities of all the change management efforts associated with talent
contest project are as follows:
Role Responsibilities
Project Sponsor The project sponsor mainly engages in
approving all the changes within the budget as
well as funding allocation.
Project manager The project manager receives as well as log all
the change request from project stakeholders
for conducting preliminary schedule, cost as
well as scope of the project (Nahavandi,
2016).
Project team The project team helps in submitting all the
change request forms and assists in providing

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proper applicable information.
6. Change control processes
The change control processes of the “Talent Contest” project generally follow various
organizational standards for the project. The change control processes mainly include:
Identification of the requirement for change: The change requester will engage in
submitting the change request for to the project manager of talent contest project.
Log the change into change request register: The project manager will keep proper
log of the change request that is submitted (Stark, 2015).
Evaluate the change: The project manager will engage in analyzing the cost, schedule
of the project for clarifying the requester about the demanded changes in the project.
Submitting change request: The change request will be submitted by the project
manager to CCB after proper analysis.
Obtaining decisions on various change requests: The CCB will mainly engage in
discussing the proposed changes and make proper decision on the approval of the changes
(Heldman, 2015).
Implement the changes: The project manager will update the project as per the
requirement if change is approved by the CCB.

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Bibliography
Fleming, Q. W., & Koppelman, J. M. (2016, December). Earned value project management.
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Heldman, K. (2015). PMP project management professional exam deluxe study guide: updated
for the 2015 Exam. John Wiley & Sons.
Nahavandi, A. (2016). The Art and Science of Leadership -Global Edition. Pearson.
Schwalbe, K. (2015). Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.
Stark, J. (2015). Product lifecycle management. In Product Lifecycle Management (Volume
1) (pp. 1-29). Springer International Publishing.
Verzuh, E. (2015). The fast forward MBA in project management. John Wiley & Sons.