Project Execution and Control Report: Managing Project Changes

This report addresses the critical aspects of project execution and control, emphasizing the importance of change management within project frameworks. It explores the sources of change, including environmental shifts, organizational adjustments, and evolving customer requirements. The report highlights the necessity of change management in project management, detailing the processes and strategies for analyzing, assessing, and managing project changes effectively. Furthermore, it discusses various tools and techniques, such as Asana, Huddle, and Liquid Planner, used to maintain project schedules, delegate tasks efficiently, and mitigate risks associated with change management. The report underscores the significance of setting expectations, defining project scope, and utilizing project management software to ensure projects stay organized and achieve desired outcomes.

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Topic: Managing Project Changes
Change management alters the existing stakeholder relations and social structures. The
process of creating long term value within an organisation is practised by adding change
management elements. The management of change is done to ensure the desired outcomes that
would prove to be right and work to ensure the goals of the organisation. Usually, the goals that a
change control procedure adopts are minimal interference to services, utilisation of resources and
almost no disruptions in services and reduced back-out activities, and this is why change
management is a necessary component of Project Management (Heldman, 2018).
The sources of change include Changes in the environment; that occurs from the changes
made in strategies of a business plan, policies change from government officials and change in
legislation. Organizational Change happens when business decisions of high-level changes the
basics of project references; likewise, the overall scope of the project may change. Changes in
customer requirements result in the End- User changes (Rose, 2013).
The tools used to keep track of the schedules were Asana, Huddle, Liquid Planner and
Basecamp and some of the techniques to keep the projects in track were always having
meetings, making sure the meeting frequency worked for all the parties, choosing the right
meeting tools and letting the user of the project being planned define the quality criteria. Other
factors help the project plans to get organised from the very beginning; these include setting
expectations at earliest, defining the scope of the project, following a template, setting time
limitations. Efficiently delegating tasks provides the project planner to give the team members of
a project a sense of responsibility. Usage of Project Management softwares proves as an
effective method to eliminate all the risks associated with change management and project plans.

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The tools help in performing various events. Also, Asana manages tasks and works as an
automated task manager. Asana can also support multiple users and is considered to be
extremely flexible. A huddle is a collaboration tool that holds cloud content. Huddle gives a
platform to hold the documents online and then make changes around them. Liquid Planner tool
is a scheduling tool. This tool lets the Project Managers schedule by priority(Snyder &
Stackpole, 2013).

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