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. They support rigorous procedures and strong decision-making in complex and simple changes
- 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.
Considerations at the start of a change programme
- how to ensure the change strategy aligns with the organisation’s vision?
- how to manage connections with other change initiatives?
- how to involve people in the change?
- what governance processes need to exist to drive change forward?
- how to collect and analyse data to see what works and what does not in the change?
- how to evaluate the change’s impact?
Considerations during a change programme
- is the project remaining aligned to a clear vision and purpose?
- are we engaging and involving the right people in the right way?
- are governance procedures being followed and operating effectively?
- are financial and workforce implications being considered?
- does the data indicate that project outcomes are being achieved?
- does the project plan need to be adapted? or is there a need to return to an earlier part of the change cycle?
- is learning from the project being captured?