[ Change Management

“There shall be no change on this project”.  

During one of my first major pipeline projects, at the kick-off meeting, the project manager made that statement and then paused, and waited.  Someone then had the courage to say, “hang on, of course there will be change, what do you mean by that?”

The beauty of the ‘no change’ stance was that on that project, we had a clear, unambiguous understanding of when change management applied.   

Change management processes firstly need to recognise when ‘change’ needs ‘management’.  A good change management process should then also be transparent, consultative, recordable, and traceable. 

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PECS AM036 Change management.