Question

Your past projects gave the client wide berth when it came to suggesting changes at any time they saw fit. Often they expressed an unbridled enthusiasm in making frequent changes, many of which were not well thought out. Times have changed, and you need to implement effective management control.

Describe your plan to implement good scope change control practices. Describe the change control process you will implement. Where does this process apply to the five PMI process groups? Be specific and include our text and additional references other than the text to support your views.

Answer 1

Describe your plan to implement good scope change control practices. Describe the change control process you will implement.

Section-1

In order to implement good scope change control practices, one should foresee whether:

• Change can increase the efficiency of operations
• Change can reduce the cost of operations
• Change is capable of increasing the skill set of the organizations
• Change help in achieving the objective, mission and vision at comparatively reduced time.

Source: ( (Smartsheet, 2019)

Section-II

In such a case following actions has to be carried out to implement effective change:

• Collect the requirement and resource available
• Define the scope of change
• Make a Work breakdown structure
• Verify the scope through brainstorming
• initiate the change

Source: (Warner, 2019)

Section-III

Steps in the change control process after initiation:

During Implementation -

• Assess the change at every stage of depicted in the work breakdown structure.
• Document the changes made and yet to be completed at every step
• Test the effectiveness of change with standard or existing practice at every stage

After Implementation –

• Analyze the throughput using the above conditions illustrated in Section-I

Source: (Rouse, 2019)

Where does this process apply to the five PMI process groups?

The 5 PMI process groups:

• Initiating process group
• Planning process group
• Executing process group
• Monitoring and controlling process group
• Closing process group

The above illustrated change management process comes under Planning Process Group, as it involves assessing the change and how a change have to be rather than the identifying the requirement of change.

References

Rouse, M. (2019). Retrieved from searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com: https://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/definition/change-control

Smartsheet. (2019). Retrieved from www.smartsheet.com/: https://www.smartsheet.com/8-elements-effective-change-management-process

Warner, J. L. (2019). Best Practices for Scope Management. Retrieved from www.projectsmart.co.uk: https://www.projectsmart.co.uk/best-practices-for-scope-management.php