Definitions and Concepts Flashcards

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What is the ISO document on Project Management that is referenced in the Normative References?

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ISO 21500:2012(E)

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What are the two complementary sets of attributes a Benefit can have?

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Quantitative/Qualitative; Measurable/Non-Measurable

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What is Benefit Realization?

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The acheivment of the expected outcomes

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How can Adoption be observed in an organization?

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Stakeholder behaviours are consistent with future state behaviours

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Adoption of new ways of thinking or behaving requires what two things?

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Accepance and demonstration

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What is Change?

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Transition from Current State to Future State

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How is the Current State defined?

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Condition at the time is initiated

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How is the Future State defined?

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Condition at the time the benefits have been realized

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What are the four categories of Change Impact?

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People, process, technology, and the workplace

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What is Change Management?

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Applying a structured approach to achieve the expected benefits of a change

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What is a Change Risk

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An “effect” on change benefits caused by a possible event or condition

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When does an organization experience Change Saturation

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When the amount of change is more than can be effectively handled

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Who can said to hold Competency?

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Indoviduals or Organizations

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What are the components of Competency?

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Knowledge, skills, and abilities

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What are the two parts of Engagement?

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A stateholders involvement and influence in the change process

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What are the three objectives of Governance?

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The approval/rejection, monitoring, and adjusting of the Change Management Plan

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At its core, Governance is simply ________

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A decision-making process

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What is an Outcome?

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A specific, measurable result or effect

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“Readiness” means an organization is ready to do what three things?

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Accept, handle, and integrate the impending change

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What is Resistance?

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Stakeholder opposition to change

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What is Resistance Managememt?

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Addressing stakeholder opposition to change

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Who is the Sponsor?

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The person or group accountable for the realization of change benefits

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What is Sponsorship?

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Aligning stakeholders to support and own a change

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Who is a Stakeholder

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An individual affected by change

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What is Sustainability?
The ability to maintain the Future State
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What is a Vision?
The description of the Future State
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What will an individual's normal reaction to change classically cause?
A dip in performance
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Change Management will enable what 8 things during the process of change?
Increase **adaptability** Increase **engagement**, morale, preparedness **Minimize** performance dip Accelerate performance **recovery** Increase **utilization** and proficiency Minimize **learning curve** Increase **benefits** realization Optimize **sustainability**
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What are the roles of Change management and Strategic planning in relation to each other?
Strategic Planning establishes vision and required changes Change Management drives individual and collective adoption
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What three things will the Vision describe about the Change?
Why the Change is needed What the Future State will be like Sometimes the risks
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What are the 4 reasons Strategic Planning has a foundational link to Change Management?
It provides **clarity of direction** Identifies results and **benefits** *Aligns* stakeholders to **common plan** *Guide* for decision making, **communications**, and engagement
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What are 10 of the change variables mentioned in the types of Change?
- Technological **complexity** - Number and type of impacted stakeholder **groups** - Degree of **process** change - Amount of **structural** adjustments - Physical **relocations** - Benefit or **compensation** impacts - **Workorce** adjustments - **Speed** of implementation - Degree of **job role** change - **Geographic** dispersion
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What are 6 cultural/readiness elements that influence how individuals/organizations respond to Change?
- Value systems - Cultural norms - Histories - Past changes - Leadership styles - Competency in managing change
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What are the two tools to addess the Change definition?
The 10 change variables and the 5 cultural/readiness elements
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What are the 5 integrations of Project Management and Change Management?
Roles & Responsibilites Methodology & Plan Tools & Resources Objectives & Outcomes Risks
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What is the relationship of Project Management and Change Management as diciplines?
Complimentary but distinct
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What is the role of Project Management?
Delivering the planned change; the skills, tools, and techniques required; within required scope, time, cost, and quality
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What are four responsibilities in the role of Change Management?
- Influencing individual **behavior** - Facilitating new ways of **working** - Tracking and enabling **benefits realization** - Providing **input for future** change initiatives
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What 3 expectations should Project Management and Change Management establish?
How they will work together How to share information How decisions will be made
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How are the methodologies of Project Management and Change Management complimentary?
Project Management focuses on the Technical (Delivery) Change Management focuses on the People (Implementation)
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What dependancies might the Change Plan and the Project Plan have?
Project milestones and change management activities may trigger one another
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What do Change Management tools do?
Deliver, implement, control, and measure change
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What is one example of a tool that both Project Management and Change Management can share?
Stakeholder Analysis
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What are some resources that both Project Management and Change Management can share?
People, hardware, software, facilities, finances
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How do Project Management and Change Management contribute uniquely to benefits realization?
- Project Management **delivers** the planned change - Change Management drives the **implementation and adoption**
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What risks do Project Management focus on?
Threats to timeline, scope, budget, and benefits
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What risks do Change Management focus on?
Threats to implementation, adoption, and benefits
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Change is managed on what two levels?
Organizational and Individual
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What 5 things can Change Management examine to determine an organization's ability to support change?
- **Cultural** attributes - **Prioritization** of the change - Shared **vision** - **Recent** change - **Structure and roles** needed to support change
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What 7 types of recent changes are considered when assessing and organizations readiness for change?
Business processes, systems, policies, behaviours, rewards, performance indicators, procedures
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What are 7 things that influence individual's commitment and acceptance of change?
Perspectives, biases, motivations, behaviours, mindsets, resistance, and reactions
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What are 5 things that are necessary for an individual to transition to the Future State?
Willingness, ability, knowledge, skills, time capacity
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What is the role of sponsors and leadership on the individual level of change?
Active coaching individuals though the change
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What is a Change Management Practitioner responsible for?
**Coordinating**, **applying**, and **tracking** change management tools/activities
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What is a Change Management Lead responsible for?
Change Strategy, Change Plan, schedule, budget, resources. Primary liason for Sponsor, Project Manager, Leadership, Project Team, Stakeholders
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What does the Change Management Team do?
- **Design**, **analyse**,**develop**, and **enable** the *adoption*, *usage*, and *proficiency* of an organization. - They complete **tasks**, collect **feedback**, ensure **training**, deliver **communications**.
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What are two Change Management roles that may not be on the Change Management Team?
Sponsors and Change Agents
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What are two main responsibilities for the change Sponsor?
Accountable for realization of benefits Ultimate decision making and funding authority
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What does a Change Agent provide?
Insight and understanding to the organization
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What thre things will a Change Agent be expected to do?
Model the required behaviour Provide feedback Actively engage
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A Change should be aligned to what three things in an organization?
Structure, Process, People