ABSTRACT
The first aspect of project change is the impacts resulting from the project itself, and how to deal with those impacts. Minor changes can be dealt with easily; major changes may require major intervention. The focus is on minimizing the impact of change. Change may also occur when using the project management discipline because it is a new way of doing business. Companies, especially entrepreneurial companies, like to be in a freewheeling, virtually unstructured mode. While a gate process is one of the ways to monitor and control a project, changes are still likely to occur. Again, rather than develop change processes for each major project component, one consistent change control process is all that is needed. The change control process efforts need to recognize that there will be changes. Those changes can be divided into types, and also the sources of those changes – external or internal.
