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An increasing number of organizations are looking for methodologies to connect change management to project management. Project managers are increasingly involved in mandates integrating change management. In a context that requires specific efforts from organizations to better achieve their transformations, it is necessary to ask what change management knowledge project managers possess and are able to mobilize when managing a change project. To answer this question, this exploratory study investigates the knowledge project managers had acquired and transposed after a course in change management. Our results show that project managers discovered and tried to disseminate complexity as well as revising most of their project management visions and practices. Quotations are included to reveal how far the project managers’ knowledge was reconfigured. Having discussed the findings in connection with the current literature, we propose some cartographies of knowledge that we consider useful for researchers in project and change management. We also conclude that education in project management should revisit its theoretical roots to better reflect the real life of projects.