GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

Change is a fundamental part of organizational project management and how change is managed impacts how successful a project will be. On this note, both project management and change management have a role to play in the management and delivery of organizational changes. At an interpersonal level, different skills are needed in the practice of change management and project management. While project management focused on supplier, budget, planning, resourcing, schedule, and risk related issues. By contrast, change management focuses on alignment, communication, reconciling viewpoints, politics, and training. These different areas of interest, the relatively small amount of time that these disciplines have been working together on organizational change projects, and a lack of commonly accepted guidelines on how these disciplines should cooperate, have contributed to the different opinions that practitioners of these disciplines hold regarding how they should relate to each other. Some level of integration between project management and change management is necessary if organizational project management is going to consider and address the whole organization during the conception, initiation, delivery, maintenance of organizational changes and response to some of the factors that are relevant to successful delivery. The study therefore concludes that effective organizational project management needs to find a balance between project management and change management.