PROJECT-BASED CHANGE MANAGEMENT | Custom Essay Papers

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PROJECT-BASED CHANGE MANAGEMENT

 

Context

 

You are working as a project team member in a project management office (PMO) and the manager of the PMO has asked you to participate in a review of one of the organisation’s project’s approach to project change management.

 

 

Your task for this assignment

 

•       Your initial task is to carry out a survey of the literature* on project change management to inform the review. You are looking for contemporary (no later than 2013) and seminal literature* on this topic which is relevant to the sector of your organisation/project types

•       In the format of a report, you will discuss this literature*, considering its strengths, weaknesses and relevance to your organisation’s projects.

 

•       Also in the report you will make a recommendation on why change management is important in projects; models or frameworks on how change is brought about or experienced in project; and approaches and processes for managing ‘change to the project’.

 

The total length of your assignment is to be approx. 2000 words.

 

Remember to use Harvard AGPS6 formatting and not APA.

 

Report structure

 

Provide the following:

Mark sheet/rubric (see separate mark sheet and rubric)

Report cover sheet

 

Executive summary (200 – 300 words – not included in word count)

Table of contents, List of Tables (if required), List of Figures (if required)

1.     Introduction (150 words)

Introduce the purpose of your report and its structure.

2.     Organisational context (200 words)

In this section, describe the organisational and project context for which you are preparing the report. You can base this on a PMO with which you have experience, or on a case study taken from the literature. Include details such as the type of projects undertaken, the current change management processes and capability, problems being experienced etc. Specify whether this report is for all projects in the organisation, a type of project in the organisation, or a specific project.

 

3.     Literature review (900 words)

•       Structure this section in two-parts:

 

o   Models, frameworks and processes for how change is brought about or experienced in projects

o   Processes for managing ‘change to the project’

 

•       You can support your literature review with tables and figures.

 

•       Summarise, compare and contrast the literature* you have found which is relevant to these topics and the domain of the organisation/project/projects.

 

•       Ensure you justify your choice of literature* (e.g. its legitimacy, date of publication, whether it has been peer-reviewed, and whether there is research supporting the concept or argument).

 

4.     Recommendations (500 words)

•       Based on your review of the literature* suggest the tools or processes that should be used by the organisation’s projects (or specific project) for managing change brought about by the project, and for managing ‘change to the project’. Justify your recommendation – what are the expected benefits from adopting the recommendations.

 

•       You can support your recommendation with tables and figures to justify your selection and/or to demonstrate the use of the recommended tool or process.

5.     Conclusions (150 words)

 

•       Summarise your findings (i.e. what did you discover from conducting the literature review?).

 

Reference List

 

*Literature means peer-reviewed journal articles and academic book chapters ONLY.

 

IMPORTANT:

 

•       The focus of this assignment is on demonstrating an ability to find, summarise and discuss high quality and relevant literature.

 

•       This is not a critical analysis as you are not comparing the projects actual processes to the literature. You are simply reviewing relevant literature for what may be useful to the organisational/project.