You are a PM for an NGO project for improving sanitation hygiene in a rural locality. The project is in the planning stage now and you are developing the project management plan. Your plan is waiting for baseline updates from cost and schedule before you send it out for an approval from your sponsor. At this stage, you receive an input from your civil engineer that the planned layout of the sanitation area will need to change since there has been an interference of that area with a future proposed highway construction. You are a bit concerned now. This will change the scope, and the time significantly. What is your next best step as a project manager now?

Select one:

a. Keep moving as per base plan. You will have time to sort it out later with the Highways Authority

b. Work out the impact on cost, scope & time revise those baselines and the PM plan

c. Start an RCA session with your team members to understand why this input was missed initially

d. Start the process of raising a formal change request using the PICC process