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How to plan change

All projects are change projects and should be viewed and planned as change projects. This self-evident truth is too often ignored with major downstream consequences.

This Guide provides you with the information and knowledge to effectively generate a set of change plans for your project. It provides you with a simple change planning framework that you can use for benefits delivery, risk and issue management.

Change delivery is important to get right, and is not difficult if you use this Guide’s simple approach.


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An organization that admitted it was hopeless at change used this change planning approach to totally change every dimension of their company. It is that effective yet simple.

The change planning framework makes organizing a change plan simple, and the supporting ’10 streams of change’ model ensures you think through the different types of change.

The result is an easy to read and understand change plan linked to the project’s desired business outcomes (benefit or risk) that can be decomposed into detailed change action plans.

Forget the ‘noise’ about resistance to change and change strategies - this simple change planning process enables the staff themselves to define the necessary change plans. 

All you need to know is

  • where you are (your current state)
  • where you need to end up (your desired business outcomes)
  • what you don’t know (your ‘clarify’ actions)
  • what needs to change
  • and what needs to be put in place to sustain the changes once made.

This Guide’s simple, activity focused approach that can be used as easily for benefits delivery, risk and issue management, as project delivery. 

And it enables you to easily approach each project as a change project!

How to plan change

  1. Understanding change planning
  2. Understanding the change planning framework
  3. Understanding the 10 streams of change model
  4. The end-to-end change planning process
  5. How to identify the required change activities
  6. How to organize your change planning workshop
  7. How to refine your change activity statements
  8. How to populate your change planning framework
  9. How to use the ten streams of change model
  10. How to assess concurrent and planned project impacts
  11. How to assess the planned change’s size, scale and complexity
  12. How to plan your change projects
  13. How to plan benefits realization (a benefits delivery plan)
  14. How to plan risks (a risk management action plan)
  15. How to manage your organization’s planned change deployment
  16. How to govern change plans
  • Project (and change) Practitioners - to understand how to plan change simply but effectively
  • Governance teams - to understand the nature and components of project change planning
  • PPMOs - to oversee effective change planning
  • Auditors - to assess the nature of each project’s change plans
  • Equips you to plan and then track your project activities through a simple change framework
  • Enables you to identify all of the changes required
  • Structures these activities so you know what you don’t know
  • Organizes your change activities into 10 streams to ensure your plans are complete
  • Assesses the size, scale and complexity of your change plan - is it achievable?
  • Can be learned to be used by anyone, no experience required
  • Produces change plans that can then be scheduled and managed using traditional project management techniques

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