Question

You have just received the following corporate change request from the Information Technology Division of Freektail Inc. Your task is to meet with your project team to assess the impact of this “change.”

CORPORATE CHANGE REQUEST
Project Title: the Semi-Conductor Inspection Device 4th Generation project (SCID4)	Change No.: 2011-F-0639
Submitted By: Mr. Keith Adkins	Date: November 14, 2017
Description of Requested Change: Modify SOW as follows: 1100 Project Management The project team shall initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control and close the SCID4 project. The project team shall perform on-going project management activities to include the conduct of regular team meetings and status briefings. The project team shall provide weekly project performance reports that address cost, schedule and technical performance. The weekly project performance reports shall be prepared electronically in a format that is compatible with the Freektail Artemis portfolio project performance dashboard.
Reason for Change Request: Freektail Inc. has recently acquired and installed a project performance dashboard. The dashboard is managed using Artemis 2017 Enterprise. The CEO of Freektail is now requiring all projects, internal and external to support project reporting using Artemis 2017 Enterprise, so that all project sponsors and executives will have ready access to consistent and reliable project status information.
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Do you consider this corporate change request to be a simple change, or does it represent a change in project scope? Why?

How will this “change” impact the cost of your project plan?

How will this “change” impact the schedule for your project plan?

How will this “change” impact the resources you acquire to execute this project?

What additional changes will you make to your project plan to incorporate this change request?

Answer 1

Do you consider this corporate change request to be a simple change, or does it represent a change in project scope? Why?

I believe this is a simple change. It should change the project scope because it will not delay the work that needs to be done for the project, it will only change how the results will be communicated. Thus, not effecting any major scheduling or financing aspects of the project.

How will this “change” impact the cost of your project plan?

Other than maybe downloading the proper software and maybe paying someone from the software company to explain how to use it properly to share the results with our sponsors during a meeting it should not change the cost of the project plan drastically. We may not even need to have a meeting if our tech staff is already educated with the program going to be put in place.

How will this “change” impact the schedule for your project plan?

Only if we had a meeting to educated the staff on how to use the program would it impact the schedule in any way, and if it did it would be vary minor probably being a couple hours delay in schedule. It could also make the schedule proceed quicker by communicating with sponsors and other major stakeholders faster and more efficiently.

How will this “change” impact the resources you acquire to execute this project?

The only extra resources needed would be the program given in the change request.

What additional changes will you make to your project plan to incorporate this change request?

Holding a meeting about the change and if we need to bring in someone who is fluent in the program to explain and cover how to use and enter our results correctly.