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1. Causes of Change
Choose any four ‘causes' of change within a project in table 9.1 in the text. Provide a project example and scenario, and describe the impact of each change. Was there a level of change control in the project examples that tracked ownership, documentation and approval of these changes?
Causes of changes during project implementation
Poor communications.
Culture and structure of organization, personalities.
Pressure/time constraints preventing effective definitive design.
Changing markets, customer demands, ideas.
Company attitude, poor discipline.
Innovative, immature technolog.
Contracts signed when scope is not frozen.
Schedule-driven projects.
Customers changing their minds.
Conflicting requirements within the team, lack of experience.
Getting contractors to ‘‘buy into'' plan Insufficient front-end loading of the project.
Changes from initial design.
Evolving relationship with customers and tasks from other projects.
Lack of preparation, inadequate risk assessment.
Lack of personal knowledge/experience, time pressures.
Poor initial planning.
Not enough discussion among all stakeholders at the start of project.
Poor scope documents, scope changes, lack of resources, time.
Not enough time at the front end to finalize design.
Projects are nebulous, company run by jargon-spouting accountants.
Scope of work unclear at start of project, changes in market, technology.
Lack of understanding by project sponsors (operations).
Developing situation in areas of new technology.
Changes in design after commencing installation.
Inadequate planning for business strategy.
Individuals always have their own ideas on how to carry out their work.
The nature of development work The nature of the work itself.
Unforeseen problems, difficulty of scoping.
Being unable to see all the issues at the beginning.
Lack of project management tools and understanding of workloads.
Lack of understanding of the project on the part of senior management.
2. Change Control System
The identification of all changes to a project is only the first step for ensuring a control system is in place. Describe the detailed steps you would implement for your project to ensure an entire change control process is in place. Consider the following topics in your answer: documentation, analysis, approval and implementation. Why is the baseline configuration important to this topic?