How to manage project changes
There are 4 actions you have to do to manage / control / minimize project changes:-
1- Get the whole team involved: let everybody in the team know
what you are going to deliver exactly by sharing SOW (Statement of work), schedule, Requirements Specifications even the acceptance criteria. Having this knowledge sharing will help them to identify changes or find brilliant solution for requested changes by spending less effort.
2- Defend Scope: train you people to defend the scope and never give the client any promises until they come back to you to discuss it in details and find other solutions without changing the scope and if no other solution then go for the change.
3- Enforce CR (Change Request) Process: make sure that every change will go through CR process to evaluate the impact (use relevant team member for that) and approve it then go for Implementation.
4- Don’t do the work until getting the permission: do not ever give informal approvals or take handshaking permission and do the work based on it, because if things went wrong and who approved it informally took his word back they will never get you paid for the work you have done.
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