Improving Project Decision Making

1. Identify a needed change: Project team members or stakeholders will identify a change that needs to be made.
2. Document the potential change: The desired change will be recorded as a change request.
3. Submit change request to CCB: The change request will be submitted to the Change Control Board (CCB) by the person requesting the change.
4. Discuss the change and its effects on the project: The CCB will meet and discuss the change and how it will affect parts of the project like the schedule and budget.
5. Approve or deny the change: The CCB will use the available information about the proposed change and its effects to make a decision on whether to accept or deny the change
6. Make necessary modifications: If the project is approved, changes will need to be made to the schedule, budget, and other areas.
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Implement the change: Once the change is approved and the project plan is modified, the change can be implemented.
For this project, five people should be on the Change Control Board, the project manager, project sponsor, team leader, IT department head, and training department head. These five members would provide a variety of perspectives on the changes, and would be able to effectively assess the proposed changes. The board should meet when one major change or a number of minor changes to the project are requested. As a group they will discuss each change and then either approve or deny