As a project manager, you’ll need to oversee various types of meetings. When poorly planned they burn time and cause frustration within the project team. You can master your skills by understanding the components of each meeting in the project lifecycle. Sybex® has created a series of slide decks covering five types of meetings project managers are expected to run. In this, the first deck in the series, we'll explore tips and tactics related to the change control meeting.

1. The 5 Types of
Meetings Project
Managers Need
to Master
Slide Deck Number Four: Change Control

2. Meetings provoke strong emotions for many professionals.
When used with skill, they are a way to share information, solve
problems, make decisions, and build relationships. Run poorly,
meetings burn up precious time and create frustration.
Given how many meetings project managers attend, there’s a
high ROI in thinking ahead to plan your meetings. To enhance
your meeting skills, learn how to navigate five critical types of
project meetings

3. In this, part four of our five-part series covering the various
types of meetings project managers need to master, we’ll
explore the change control meetings.

4. Change Control
Meetings
Despite the best planning in the world, you
will encounter surprises on your projects.
A risk event may occur. Or you may have a
new opportunity to move faster on a project.
However, these changes need to be managed
in a disciplined, systematic way. While you
may have the power to approve small change
requests as the project manager, most
change requests will need to be reviewed
through a governance process and meetings.

5. The Agenda
Provide an agenda in advance so that attendees know which
changes will be discussed. The best practice is to circulate the
agenda at least one business day in advance of the meeting
date (along with supporting documents like copies of the
change requests).

6. Discuss Change Assessment
For each proposed change request, present your professional
opinion on the potential impact to the project.

7. Make a Change
Recommendation
Request the project sponsor approve, deny or comment on the
change request.

8. Plan Next Steps
Explain how the change request decision will be communicated and
outline how you will describe the impact of the project.

9. As this series continues, we’ll dive into the final type of meeting
you’ll need master in order to be an effective project manager.
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