Project change management defines the activities related to identifying, documenting, assessing, prioritising, approving, planning and controlling project changes, as well as communicating them to all relevant stakeholders. Changes can be requested (or identified and raised) throughout the project lifecycle by any project stakeholder.
The Project Change Management Process can be tailored and customised to a project’s needs and can be documented either in a Project Change Management Plan or in the Project Handbook. A Change Log is used to document, monitor and control all project changes. This makes it easier to track the changes and communicate them to the Gran Owner (PO) and/or the Project Steering Committee (PSC) and Contracting Authority (CA) for approval.
The approval process of project changes depends on their impact and dimension. Generally, major project changes need a formal approval by the Contracting Authority (CA) while minor project changes need to be agreed at the level of the Project Steering Committee (PSC). In this case the Contracting Authority (CA) is only informed.
Key participants | Description |
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Contracting Authority (CA) | Approves or rejects the major project changes |
EU Project Manager (EUPM) | Monitors and controls the project changes. |
Partners Project Managers (PtEUPM) | Support the EU Project Manager (EUPM) in monitoring and controlling the project changes |
Grant Owner (PO) and/or | |
Project Steering Committee (PSC) | Approves or rejects the minor project changes |
Project Core Team (PCT) | Involved in analysing the requested project changes (estimating the effort required to implement the changes). |
Stakeholders | Informed about the approved project changes. May introduce new project changes. |
Monitoring and Control | CA | PSC | GO | DC | PTG | CR | EUPM | PtEUPM | PCT | PST (FM) |
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Manage Project Change (major) | A | S | S | C | I | I | R | S | C | S |
Manage Project Change (minor) | I | S | A | C | I | I | R | S | C | S |