Project Portfolio Management: A View From The Management Trenches

6.6. EPMC WORKING DOCUMENT ON ENTERPRISE CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Enterprise Change Management is about providing visibility and understanding on what is the "impact of projects and change" on people, workgroups, and departments within an organization.

Enterprise Change Management answers the following questions:

• What is our capacity for change?

• How much is too much?

• How should we priorities and focus our efforts? and

• What decisions need to be made to improve the probability of our success?

An Enterprise Change Management Assessment Tool can be used to measure and assess the overall "ability to absorb" the impact and change across individuals, groups, and departments within the enterprise. By identifying impact points and the subsequent capacity for change across multiple dimensions, a framework for decision making and prioritizing of projects—along with the associated resources, project execution, and scheduling—can be accomplished. It is important to remember this is not a one-time assessment but a tool that can be used by the organization on an ongoing basis.

The organizational impact assessment is a fact-based assessment and view of what, when, and who is impacted. The assessment delivers executive decision-making capabilities around priorities and scheduling so that projects are delivered as promised. The assessment is straightforward and has three key impact focus areas:

• Expected timing of activity/projects

• Number and involvement of resources

• Degree of disruption

If done properly the ...