Hybrid Project Management

18Maintaining Momentum

No matter how well you have planned your project or how nimble you are in addressing new requirements, events and situations will happen that impede your progress. Being prepared to address changes will help you and your team maintain momentum.

In this chapter we will look at the change management process. You'll see how changes affect predictive work and adaptive work. We'll also discuss the implication of adding scope to predictive and adaptive work. To help you keep the project organized and moving forward, we'll introduce a few logs and charts you can use.

WORKING WITH CHANGE

As in life, the only certainty in projects is change. Because change is sure to happen, it is best to be prepared. Think through how you want people to submit change requests, how you will evaluate them, who can approve them, how you will track the changes, and so forth. You can record this information in a change management plan.

Change management: A process for identifying, tracking, evaluating, and implementing modifications for deliverables, plans, or project documents.

Change Management Plan

A change management plan has four main parts:

• Change management approach;
• Definitions of change;
• Change control board; and
• Change management process.

Change Management Approach

The change management approach describes the degree of change control and how it will be integrated with other aspects of the project. In a hybrid project it is a good idea to indicate which deliverables ...