What is going to change? In our case, a new project management solution is required: let’s assume you want to introduce Change Control in your projects. Let’s deal with the worst case: final users in the firm or departments resist change and … unfortunately some middle-managers/team leaders would like the new system to fail; final [...]
Archive for the ‘Change’ Category
6 Sep
Why is it so Difficult to Introduce Change in a Business Environment?
They speak of change but they never say in a clear way what they want, usually because … they do not know what they want. A change needs clear goals and clear ways to get those goals: that is seldom done. Team members think “Ok, you [the boss] want us to change but we don’t [...]
16 Aug
You need good Project Management, honest People and good Training, not Processes
Even when adopting Project Management, in the end all is done by people. Technology changes and has to be adapted to the situation. Processes may change and SHOULD change. Moreover, I like to see processes as necessary bureaucracy, to be reduced to the minimum; they are a “necessary illness”. A firm needs products, not processes. [...]
30 Jul
Change Management & Project Management
In a project management environment, Change Management is a part of project management’s: it deals with all the changes which are proposed during the project itself. In a few words, when a change to the project itself or to its product/s are proposed, such change is dealt with in an orderly (and pre-arranged) manner, i.e., [...]
17 Jul
Why should the Management be active in a Project?
The Management should be giving necessary directions – a Project and/or team will always need directions, clarifications, and so on. The team needs skills and/or funds that were (maybe) promised … they need help. What to do of a change request by customers? And so on.