- Basecamp
http://basecamp.com/
- Activecollab
http://www.activecollab.com/
- Smartsheet
http://www.smartsheet.com/
- Change Management. What a Project Manager should know.
The change management system (CMS) is the “radar” for your project, it’s
constantly scanning the horizon for changes
investigating and evaluating requested changes to your project scope
requires time and money to perform, so you need a mechanism built into your
CMS to allow for this
Obviously the investigation must be fair, you must not attempt to bias the
reporting of the results of the investigation to the stakeholders in order
to:
a. have them reject to change, because i\t means more work for you.
b. exaggerate the impact so that you can use it as a buffer for shortfalls
elsewhere in the project.
Document everything
So you draw up a justification for accepting/rejecting the change and
present it to the stakeholders. If the change is accepted and signed off
(don’t miss the signoff stage, or it will come back to bite you –
guaranteed!)
A good CMS will ensure that all necessary changes are made to the budget,
schedules, performance measuring metrics at the same time as the scope is
changed, and no critical stakeholders are left out of the loop
you must establish within your CMS a way to tell “who pays” for the
changes, because it can vary depending upon circumstances.
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