Changes

How often have you had a clear idea in your mind of what you want, but when you started to do some further work found that your ideas change? Projects are not immune to such changes, and project customers will often ask for some change to the deliverables whilst a project is already under way and fully planned.

The problem is that you have agreed a time and cost within which to complete the project. If you change the deliverables, you may also impact the end date, or the cost of the project. Given that project management is a structured way for ensuring an objective is met, it has a structured process for managing change. By applying a structured process, changes will only be undertaken if they are agreed with the customer, and he or ...

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