Understanding Project Change Management Tools

Project change management can be done efficiently by the use of relevant tools. There are many tools available for project change management. Most of the simple projects with less number of team members can be easily managed even with the Excel based checklist. However you may not know how to create that Excel sheet and what are the fields to be added in such an excel sheet. To make your job easier there are many websites that provide you templates for free. You can use these templates as tools for project change management.

Check the website change-management-toolbook.com for many such free tools that can be used for project change management. An excel based checklist in the name of ‘The Change Dashboard’ is available for that purpose. Audio toolbooks are also available. Change Toolkit in Excel 2003 and 2007 format are available for the change facilitators.

 

Any change should have a reason and stating this reason should be done in a proper format. You can find that in ‘The Case for Change Wizard’. Any change done in a process or project will have an impact. These impacts are given in ‘Change Impact Actions’ tool. With this tool you can find the impact of the change in your project or process and how that impact should be faced is also given. You can also use the ‘Change Impact Assessment Tool’ for this purpose.

 

The industry leaders also have many products for project change management. CA (ca.com) has many products for project change management and configuration management. Products like CA Software Change Manager can be used for that purpose.

 

IBM Rational is another product in this line. IBM Rational has different modules for the purpose of change management and configuration management. Borland StarTeam is another product that can also be used for project change management. Managing change is just a part of the product as this product can be used for managing requirements, configuration, and tasks also.

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