14 A simple change plan

The important things about a change plan are that:

  • you have one
  • you use it
  • you continually update it.

If you type ‘Change Plan Template’ into Google, you will get hundreds of pages of change plan templates. I don’t propose this one is any better or worse than most of those. I have kept this as simple as possible so you can extend it based on your change, or use it as is.

A change plan template

Below is my simple change plan that I always use at the start of any change process to map out the change.

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Keeping it simple – at first

It’s quite natural for your change plan to start simple and then expand as you need more and ...

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