Project Manager's Spotlight on Change Management -- Front matter -- About the Author -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1: Managing Project Change -- Change Management Defined -- Why Bother with Change Management? -- Let's Set Some Context -- The Controlling Processes -- Project and Product Lifecycles -- Case Study -- CHAPTER 2: Setting Up for Success -- The Roles of Change Management -- Project Manager -- Sponsors -- Team Members -- Change Control Board -- What Do We Control? -- Scope -- Schedule -- Budget -- Contract -- Timing Is Everything -- Initiating -- Planning -- Synchronization -- Baselining -- Executing -- Case Study -- CHAPTER 3: The Process of Change Management -- Designing Your System -- Making a Change to the Project -- Reviewing the Change Request -- Determining the Work Required to Make the Change -- Accumulating the Required Work -- Determining the Impact to the Project Plan and Requirements -- Having an Impact on the Triple Constraints -- A Few More "To Dos" -- Case Study -- CHAPTER 4: The Output of Change Management -- Now What? -- Yes, the Triple Constraints Are Impacted -- The Board Denies the Change -- The Board Approves the Change -- The Triple Constraints Are Not Impacted -- The Project Manager Denies the Change Request -- The Project Manager Approves the Change Request -- Process Review -- The Process within the Lifecycles -- Exceptions -- Escalations -- Case Study -- CHAPTER 5: The Incremental Effect -- The Theory of Disruptions -- Evaluating Change Requests Before Giving Them to the Team -- Scheduling the Core Team -- Delegating to Other Team Members -- Analyzing What's Prompting the Change Requests -- The Theory of Timing -- More at First, Less Over Time -- No More Changes Date -- The Theory of Estimating Change Requests -- Increasing Your Estimates Using a Different Technique.

Picking a Percentage and Increasing It -- Case Study -- CHAPTER 6: Change Tracking -- Documenting a Change Request -- Project Name -- Change Request Number (NO:) -- Date -- Requestor -- Description of Request -- Reason for Request -- Risk if Not Implemented -- Project Manager -- Work Effort Required -- Duration Required -- Resources Required -- Dependencies -- Additional Cost Required -- Risk if Implemented -- Triple Constraints Impacted -- Contracts Impacted -- PM Recommendation -- Signed PM and Date -- Change Control Board Recommendation -- Signed Executive Sponsor and Date -- Disposition -- Included in Version/Date -- Change Request Timing -- Logistics -- Making a Change Request Log -- Finishing Up -- Case Study -- APPENDIX A: Nine Knowledge Areas Refresher -- Project Management Process Groups -- Initiating -- Planning -- Executing -- Monitoring and Controlling -- Closing -- Project Management Knowledge Areas -- Project Integration Management -- Project Scope Management -- Project Time Management -- Project Cost Management -- Project Quality Management -- Project Human Resource Management -- Project Communications Management -- Project Risk Management -- Project Procurement Management -- APPENDIX B: Change Management Templates -- APPENDIX C: Calculating the Critical Path -- Performing a Forward Pass -- Performing a Backward Pass -- Calculating Float -- Reviewing the Critical Path Process -- Glossary -- Baseline -- Change Control -- Change Control Board -- Change Management -- Communicate -- Contract -- Control -- Contingency Budget -- Controlling Processes -- Cost Baseline -- Cost Control -- Cost Management -- Crashing -- Critical Path -- Escalation Process -- Fast Tracking -- Gold Plating -- Initiating -- Leader -- Lifecycles -- Managerial Reserve -- Negotiating -- Planning -- Problem Solving -- Product Development Lifecycle.

Progressive Elaboration -- Project Manager -- Project Management Lifecycle -- Project Schedule -- Resources -- Schedule Control -- Scope -- Scope Statement -- Slack Time -- Sponsors -- Time -- Team Members -- Triple Constraints -- Index -- Numbers -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.