Change management

February 27th, 2020  |  Published in Uncategorized

This seems to be my week for rants.

Change happens. Some changes cause problems. Some times avoiding changes causes problems. No “change management process” can change this.

Of course, when you’re making a change you need to be careful. You need to have a plan to back out the change if it’s too disruptive. The change needs to be communicated appropriately.

If a change management process is too onerous, people will avoid making changes. You will have fewer changes, and many changes will be delayed. This doesn’t mean you’ll have fewer problems, though, just that they will be tilted towards the problems that come from not making changes.

Unfortunately, it seems that the motivation for most change management processes is to avoid getting blamed for problems. It doesn’t work, though. You’ll get blamed anyway.

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