Definitions and Concepts Flashcards

1
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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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9
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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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17
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At its core, Governance is simply ________

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A decision-making process

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18
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What is an Outcome?

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A specific, measurable result or effect

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19
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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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20
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What is Resistance?

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Stakeholder opposition to change

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21
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What is Resistance Managememt?

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Addressing stakeholder opposition to change

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22
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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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23
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What is Sponsorship?

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Aligning stakeholders to support and own a change

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24
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Who is a Stakeholder

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An individual affected by change

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25
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What is Sustainability?

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The ability to maintain the Future State

26
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What is a Vision?

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The description of the Future State

27
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What will an individual’s normal reaction to change classically cause?

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A dip in performance

28
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Change Management will enable what 8 things during the process of change?

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Increase adaptability
Increase engagement, morale, preparedness
Minimize performance dip
Accelerate performance recovery
Increase utilization and proficiency
Minimize learning curve
Increase benefits realization
Optimize sustainability

29
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What are the roles of Change management and Strategic planning in relation to each other?

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Strategic Planning establishes vision and required changes
Change Management drives individual and collective adoption

30
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What three things will the Vision describe about the Change?

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Why the Change is needed
What the Future State will be like
Sometimes the risks

31
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What are the 4 reasons Strategic Planning has a foundational link to Change Management?

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It provides clarity of direction
Identifies results and benefits
Aligns stakeholders to common plan
Guide for decision making, communications, and engagement

32
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What are 10 of the change variables mentioned in the types of Change?

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  • 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
33
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What are 6 cultural/readiness elements that influence how individuals/organizations respond to Change?

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  • Value systems
  • Cultural norms
  • Histories
  • Past changes
  • Leadership styles
  • Competency in managing change
34
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What are the two tools to addess the Change definition?

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The 10 change variables and the 5 cultural/readiness elements

35
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What are the 5 integrations of Project Management and Change Management?

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Roles & Responsibilites
Methodology & Plan
Tools & Resources
Objectives & Outcomes
Risks

36
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What is the relationship of Project Management and Change Management as diciplines?

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Complimentary but distinct

37
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What is the role of Project Management?

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Delivering the planned change; the skills, tools, and techniques required; within required scope, time, cost, and quality

38
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What are four responsibilities in the role of Change Management?

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  • Influencing individual behavior
  • Facilitating new ways of working
  • Tracking and enabling benefits realization
  • Providing input for future change initiatives
39
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What 3 expectations should Project Management and Change Management establish?

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How they will work together
How to share information
How decisions will be made

40
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How are the methodologies of Project Management and Change Management complimentary?

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Project Management focuses on the Technical (Delivery)
Change Management focuses on the People (Implementation)

41
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What dependancies might the Change Plan and the Project Plan have?

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Project milestones and change management activities may trigger one another

42
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What do Change Management tools do?

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Deliver, implement, control, and measure change

43
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What is one example of a tool that both Project Management and Change Management can share?

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Stakeholder Analysis

44
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What are some resources that both Project Management and Change Management can share?

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People, hardware, software, facilities, finances

45
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How do Project Management and Change Management contribute uniquely to benefits realization?

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  • Project Management delivers the planned change
  • Change Management drives the implementation and adoption
46
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What risks do Project Management focus on?

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Threats to timeline, scope, budget, and benefits

47
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What risks do Change Management focus on?

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Threats to implementation, adoption, and benefits

48
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Change is managed on what two levels?

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Organizational and Individual

49
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What 5 things can Change Management examine to determine an organization’s ability to support change?

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  • Cultural attributes
  • Prioritization of the change
  • Shared vision
  • Recent change
  • Structure and roles needed to support change
50
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What 7 types of recent changes are considered when assessing and organizations readiness for change?

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Business processes, systems, policies, behaviours, rewards, performance indicators, procedures

51
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What are 7 things that influence individual’s commitment and acceptance of change?

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Perspectives, biases, motivations, behaviours, mindsets, resistance, and reactions

52
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What are 5 things that are necessary for an individual to transition to the Future State?

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Willingness, ability, knowledge, skills, time capacity

53
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What is the role of sponsors and leadership on the individual level of change?

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Active coaching individuals though the change

54
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What is a Change Management Practitioner responsible for?

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Coordinating, applying, and tracking change management tools/activities

55
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What is a Change Management Lead responsible for?

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Change Strategy, Change Plan, schedule, budget, resources. Primary liason for Sponsor, Project Manager, Leadership, Project Team, Stakeholders

56
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What does the Change Management Team do?

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  • Design, analyse,develop, and enable the adoption, usage, and proficiency of an organization.
  • They complete tasks, collect feedback, ensure training, deliver communications.
57
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What are two Change Management roles that may not be on the Change Management Team?

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Sponsors and Change Agents

58
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What are two main responsibilities for the change Sponsor?

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Accountable for realization of benefits
Ultimate decision making and funding authority

59
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What does a Change Agent provide?

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Insight and understanding to the organization

60
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What thre things will a Change Agent be expected to do?

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Model the required behaviour
Provide feedback
Actively engage

61
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A Change should be aligned to what three things in an organization?

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Structure, Process, People