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Some say that project management is essentially change management. When you create your project plan with the task schedule, assigned resources, and costs in place, it's only that—a plan. All the pieces are in exactly the right place, and the plan shows how you'll accomplish the project scope by the desired finish date and within the allotted budget. The plan reflects the perfect ideal. After you start executing the project in real life, however, things begin changing, and the project plan is no longer perfect.

For example, say a team member you were told would be available in May is not free until July. Materials that were estimated at $940 now cost $1,500. The project sponsor who originally agreed to a finish date of December 15 now insists on October 15.

These types of changes are inevitable, and they challenge your best efforts as a project manager. With Project, you can adjust various aspects of the project to compensate for these changes. If you have several choices to respond to a change, you might even run what-if scenarios in Project. You can then present the pros and cons of the scenarios to the team or other stakeholders to decide on the best course of action.

You'll learn techniques for responding to project changes in Lesson 8, “Check and Adjust the Project.”