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Practical Change Management for IT Projects

Practical Change Management for IT Projects

By : Emily Carr
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Practical Change Management for IT Projects
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
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What is Change Management?
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What is Change Management?
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Exercise – defining success
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The Pillars of Change
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Why Change Management is important to project success
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Change Management and the project team
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Exercise – team integration
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Exercise – supporting Change Management
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Summary
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Establishing the Framework for Change
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Establishing the Framework for Change
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Remembering the emotional side of change
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Integrating beyond your project team
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Organization design
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Who is your Human Resources partner?
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Are job descriptions going to change?
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Exercise – updating job descriptions
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Sample solution
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Do you have the right number of people with the skills of the future?
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How will your run team be structured?
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What will your support organization look like?
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Summary
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Building Sponsorship for the Change
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Building Sponsorship for the Change
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Why do we need a change network?
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Steering committee
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Executive sponsors
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Change Agents
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Super users
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A final note on sponsors
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Summary
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Managing Your Stakeholders
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Managing Your Stakeholders
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Conducting a stakeholder analysis
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The change curve
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Understanding the stages of change
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Surviving the Valley of Despair
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Conducting a change impact assessment
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Including end users in the change process
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Working with the project team
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Summary
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Communicating the Change
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Communicating the Change
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The importance of two-way communication
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Push versus pull communication
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Breaking through the noise
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Conducting an audience analysis
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Conducting a vehicle analysis
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Communication messages by project phase
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Gathering feedback
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Creating the communication plan
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Writing good communication
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Summary
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Using Training to Prepare Your Stakeholders
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Using Training to Prepare Your Stakeholders
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The importance of training
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Building knowledge through blended learning
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Identifying your training audience
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Gathering training input
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Planning for training development
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Planning for training delivery
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Evaluating participants
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Building continuous improvement into training
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Developing a sustainable training program
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Summary
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Ready, Set, Change
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Ready, Set, Change
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Putting it all together – consolidating your templates
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Top tips by chapter
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Spreading the word about Change Management
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Summary

Executive sponsors

Now that you know how to work with the overall steering committee, we will focus on a subset of that team: executive sponsors.

Their role

Executive sponsors are members of the steering committee who dedicate a large percentage of their time and effort to supporting your change project. Typically, they represent the part of your organization that will experience the greatest impact from the change. For example, if you are implementing new finance software, the Chief Financial Officer might sponsor the change, or co-sponsor it with the Chief Information Officer.

The executive sponsor is more involved in the project, meeting project representatives on a more regular basis, attending important project activities, and addressing issues that require executive help, but that don't need input from the entire Steering committee.

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The executive sponsor is one of the most important sponsorship roles.

If your project doesn't have one, get one. If you have one, but they don't actually...

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