You are a project manager that has been hired by a computer hardware company that produces computer keyboards. The company is based in Southeast Florida and wants you and your team to facilitate the creation of a new kind of wireless keyboard that runs on a newer, more efficient type of renewable battery. The keyboards need to be produced in one year. However, three months into the project, problems with production begin to arise. The main issue is that the heat within the Southeast Florida region is causing the batteries to malfunction. The company wants to move production to a facility in Kansas. However, the company does not want to change the scheduled deadline for the projects completion. Also, the project manager informs the company that the move to Kansas will increase the cost and scope of the project. The project manager selects five people from her project team to become the change management team. This team is now responsible for executing the necessary changes for this project.

Thinking back to this weeks lecture, provide your thoughts on how the change management team should handle this situation by answering the following prompts in your initial post:

• Provide an explanation of the skills and experience the change management team needs to have in this scenario.
• List 2-3 strategies that the change management team can used to implement these project changes without delaying the project.
• Explain 1-2 methods that can be used to maintain control of the triple restraint as these changes are being implemented.
• Describe how the change management team will communicate its plan to move locations while still keeping the project on schedule.

By completing this discussion, you will meet the following Course Outcome:

• Describe how to manage stakeholder cost and schedule expectations and explain how the communication would be disseminated.

In order to engage in an active discussion environment, submit your initial discussion post by Wednesday.

This week, we discussed the change management team and how their primary task is to ensure that any changes needing to take place are easily implemented. Anytime a change needs to be made, the project management team must enact a strategy to make the change. Consider the following scenario:

You are a project manager that has been hired by a computer hardware company that produces computer keyboards. The company is based in Southeast Florida and wants you and your team to facilitate the creation of a new kind of wireless keyboard that runs on a newer, more efficient type of renewable battery. The keyboards need to be produced in one year. However, three months into the project, problems with production begin to arise. The main issue is that the heat within the Southeast Florida region is causing the batteries to malfunction. The company wants to move production to a facility in Kansas. However, the company does not want to change the scheduled deadline for the projects completion. Also, the project manager informs the company that the move to Kansas will increase the cost and scope of the project. The project manager selects five people from her project team to become the change management team. This team is now responsible for executing the necessary changes for this project.

Thinking back to this weeks lecture, provide your thoughts on how the change management team should handle this situation by answering the following prompts in your initial post:

• Provide an explanation of the skills and experience the change management team needs to have in this scenario.
• List 2-3 strategies that the change management team can used to implement these project changes without delaying the project.
• Explain 1-2 methods that can be used to maintain control of the triple restraint as these changes are being implemented.
• Describe how the change management team will communicate its plan to move locations while still keeping the project on schedule.