Project management means planning, organising, and running a project. The goal is to reach the desired outcome while keeping within time, cost, and quality limits.
Adding a team member with project management skills can strengthen change efforts.
Tips for project management
Here are some tips for adding project management support to your change programme:
- involve someone with project management knowledge from the start of your change
- project managers need to be comfortable with uncertainty, especially during complex changes
- project managers support rigorous procedures and strong decision-making
- project management processes need to be flexible and proportionate
- project plans can help keep track of the changes and make sure they are communicated well
The role of project managers
When planning the change programme, project managers play a key role.
Consider at the start of a change programme, how to:
- ensure the change strategy aligns with the organisation’s vision
- manage connections with other change initiatives
- involve people in the change
- have the right governance processes to drive change forward
- collect and analyse data to see what works and what does not in the change
- evaluate the change’s impact
Consider during a change programme, if:
- the project remaining aligned to a clear vision and purpose
- we are engaging and involving the right people in the right way
- governance procedures are being followed and operating effectively
- financial and workforce implications are being considered
- data indicates that project outcomes are being achieved
- the project plan needs to be adapted, or is there a need to return to an earlier part of the change cycle
- learning from the project is being captured, and how to use this