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Project Management Orientation

What Is Change Management?

Change management includes the processes required to control all of the changes that inevitably arise during the course of a project changes that might jeopardize cost, revenue, quality, or deadlines. 
  
Managing change is critical to the success of a project.  As stated previously, executing change management might result in changes to one or more of the project baselines.
  
A change request is defined as a request to change some document or aspect of the project that has been placed under change control, or baselined.
  
Change management:

Change management contains the following:

Some tracking systems might include procedures for addressing changes that can be approved without prior review.  If this is the case, these changes must still be documented and addressed so that they do not cause problems later in the project.

1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
Fast Points
Concepts
Seven Keys
Case Study
WWPMM
Mentor
Check Point
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