Chapter 16
Change
In This Chapter
Appreciating what the Change theme is all about
Revising the Change theme
Key revision points
Practising with exam-style questions
The Change theme isn’t named very well, because although it’s about change management, it’s about rather more than that. In fact, the theme covers:
Change management
Configuration management (not quite the same thing as change management)
Issue handling (and issues can be about anything, not just change)
The main target of change control in any approach to project management is to tackle scope creep, a major project killer. Scope creep is unauthorised change where someone asks for ‘just’ this little thing to be added in, and then another little thing, and then another, but without any extra allowance of time or resource ...