Change process or development project?

Usually we call all kinds of change for change. When you start dealing with change process design it is a special kind of project we are talking about. There is usually some confusion about change processes and development projects.

Desired outcomes   Negotiation process	Unknown	Known
Unknown	Development projects	Technical projects
Known	Negotiation project	Planned tasks

Before you start designing a change process, you should make sure that you are dealing with a development project, where both the desired outcomes and the negotiation process are relatively unknown.

A technical project can usually be solved by using normal project management and a negotiation project can usually take place in a set of known structures.

All three categories can benefit from many of the ideas in change processes. But you do not need them.