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Practical Change Management for IT Projects

By : Emily Carr
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Practical Change Management for IT Projects

By: Emily Carr

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Practical Change Management for IT Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we covered three main strategic areas that you should keep in mind throughout your project: Change Management frameworks, integrating with other teams, and organization design. By applying these concepts to your Change Management program, you will improve your ability to successfully implement the change.

Keep these checklists somewhere visible to remind yourself of the key activities and questions for each area.

Change Management frameworks: Have you remembered to use data and facts to appeal to your stakeholders' intellectual side? Give their rider motivation to exert the will power necessary to adopt the change.

  • Use visual demonstrations to appeal to your stakeholders' emotional side? Give their rider a break from exercising their will power by directly motivating their elephant.

  • Smooth the path? Remove obstacles that make it difficult to adopt the change, and put in place incentives that make the adoption of change easier.

Integrating with other teams: Have you...