Creating a culture of partnership between project management and change management

Project management is concerned with end-to-end delivery of the change, with change management concerned about bringing stakeholders on the journey and ensuring that change meets the needs of the organisation and is embedded. In essence, the culture of project management is inherently masculine and dominated by power relationships and task orientation. An effective joint value proposition between project management and change management must incorporate both perspectives. Project management is concerned with end-to-end delivery of the change, with change management concerned about bringing stakeholders on the journey and ensuring that change meets the needs of the organisation and is embedded. Alternatively, when the project team operates on the assumption that project management and change management disciplines are independent, they can overlook opportunities for synergies and the need to incorporate change management processes into project plans. Context is one such parameter and the context is ‘the integration of project management and change management methodologies for projects’.