Project Management: Analysis of Change Management and Strategies

This report delves into the critical role of change management within project management, emphasizing its importance in standardizing processes and ensuring project efficiency. It examines the potential impact of changes related to products, organizations, and processes, and highlights the use of tools and technologies for effective management. The report analyzes key issues in the Blue Spider project, such as communication failures and lack of documentation, which led to project setbacks. It then proposes strategic solutions, including prioritizing client communication, incorporating changes from the top, ensuring stakeholder inclusion, establishing formal change management processes, and fostering clear communication channels. The report concludes by stressing the importance of addressing cultural landscapes and preparing for unexpected events to ensure successful project outcomes. The report also includes a comprehensive bibliography of relevant sources.

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Importance of Change management
Change management helps to standardize the process of operation in a project and helps
to manage the project efficiently. Change management in a project helps to manage the changes
that might be included in project. The changes in the project might be with respect to the
product, the organization or the processes (Shafiq et al., 2018). It is not necessary that change in
a project will always related with business. Change in a project might occurs because of
regulatory compliance, requirement of government and for the security issues. There are many
tools and technologies that help to adopt the changes in a project and manage the project
efficiently.
Project should include a control system for controlling as well as monitoring all the
changes that are associated with the parameters of project management (Cameron & Green,
2019). Change is a project is often stated as continuous as well as discontinuous development of
a project that changes more than one dimension of the organization. For a project, the social
structures as well as stakeholder relationship are changed along with the other changes in the
project. Change management can be stated as evolving discipline that has changed itself over 20
years.
Key issues leading change in the project
The first issue in the Blue spider project was not informing Lords about not meeting the
specification requirements of the project. The first issues of not informing them about the
changed requirement specification led to project failure.
The second issue that was in the blue spider project was not to complete the project in
specific time and not informing Lords about the progress of the work that was carried out in

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Perks Corporation. It was not possible for Lord to track the working progress as there no specific
documentation for the work that Perks carried out.
The third issue in the project was that before carrying out a new testing with a new
material, the client was not informed. Without informing the client, the change in testing process
of the product was carried out by Perks that let total failure of the project.
Strategies to perform the identified change requests
The strategies that were to be followed to address the change request in the project are:
1. Addressing the issues of the people or client first. Before addressing any other issue.
2. The change should be incorporated from the top of the project.
3. All the layers of the project should be included in the change management to address
the change.
4. Making formal cases for the project change management.
5. Ownership is to be created before addressing the change management in the project.
6. Proper communication is to be included established to compete the change
management. Messages are to be regulated properly among all the stakeholders.
7. The cultural landscape should be addressed properly in the project.
8. The project culture should be addressed explicitly.
9. Prepare for the unexpected to happen in the project.

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10. All individuals in the project should be spoken of get the feedback.

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