Project Management

Please login or join to subscribe to this thread

"Knowing your Sponsor" - Questions about "Tradeoffs"

linkedin twitter facebook  
avatar
Markus Kopko AI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM AI Coach| PMotion.ai Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hello,

i am referring to the already existing discussion here:

http://www.projectmanagement.com/discussio...roject-Sponsor-

I have to ask a bunch of questions and to have more transparency and a better overview for your participation i will divide them in several postings.

What is this about?
In short: It is about what questions to ask your sponsor as a project manger in your very first meeting to set a baseline during initiation phase.

In long: please refer to the before mentioned thread fur detailed information.

Here are the questions about "Tradeoffs":

==========================================

Tradeoffs

Which one of the drivers for this project must be achieved?
ROI
Budget
Team Satisfaction
Timeline
Functions/Features]
Quality
Customer/Stakeholder satisfaction
anything else? enter her

we want to have a prioritization here

=============================================

Please review them and leave your comment, correction, enhancement or addition. Any feedback is highly welcome!

And please lookout for the other sections also; thank you very much in advance.

Every participant will receive the result of this initiative if wanted.

Regards,

Markus
Sort By:
avatar
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Markus,

Frankly speaking, it is very difficult to prioritize the above as all of them are important and contributes towards the project success and should be achieved at the end.

I would add Safety to the above list.
...
1 reply by Markus Kopko
Nov 22, 2016 5:04 AM
Markus Kopko
...
Hi Rami,

this is why the section is called "Tradeoffs", right? ;)

Have added "Safety" to the list; thank you.

Regards,

Markus
avatar
Anupam India
Customer/Stakeholder/Team satisfaction
...
1 reply by Markus Kopko
Nov 22, 2016 5:03 AM
Markus Kopko
...
Hello Anupam,

this points are already in the list?! What do want us to tell?

Regards,

Markus
avatar
Markus Kopko AI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM AI Coach| PMotion.ai Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Nov 21, 2016 9:39 PM
Replying to Anupam
...
Customer/Stakeholder/Team satisfaction
Hello Anupam,

this points are already in the list?! What do want us to tell?

Regards,

Markus
...
1 reply by Anupam
Nov 24, 2016 9:31 AM
Anupam
...
Sponsors should provide decisions on risks, changes, and conflicts that are beyond PMs Authority.

My question is - Will you be facilitating the problem solving?
avatar
Markus Kopko AI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM AI Coach| PMotion.ai Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Nov 21, 2016 11:09 AM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
...
Markus,

Frankly speaking, it is very difficult to prioritize the above as all of them are important and contributes towards the project success and should be achieved at the end.

I would add Safety to the above list.
Hi Rami,

this is why the section is called "Tradeoffs", right? ;)

Have added "Safety" to the list; thank you.

Regards,

Markus
...
1 reply by Rami Kaibni
Nov 22, 2016 10:09 AM
Rami Kaibni
...
You're welcome my friend :-)
Thanks for your initiative and efforts.
avatar
Sungjoon Park Coral Springs, Fl, United States
Dear Markus,

As I said in the other discussion of business outcome, like benefit realization, ROI might not be appropriate to question in the project initiating stage. Expected ROI of this project might be inclusive in the business case to which management might refer when they prioritized projects at the time of selection of this project. ROI should be considered as a long term indicator after successful completion of the project, in conjunction with customer satisfaction, quality of project deliverable(functions, features and appearance), benefit realization etc..

Regards,
...
1 reply by Markus Kopko
Nov 22, 2016 9:50 AM
Markus Kopko
...
Dear Sungjoon,

i understand what you trying to say here; so should we delete ROI from the possible "tradeoffs" here? What do others think about?
avatar
Markus Kopko AI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM AI Coach| PMotion.ai Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Nov 22, 2016 9:28 AM
Replying to Sungjoon Park
...
Dear Markus,

As I said in the other discussion of business outcome, like benefit realization, ROI might not be appropriate to question in the project initiating stage. Expected ROI of this project might be inclusive in the business case to which management might refer when they prioritized projects at the time of selection of this project. ROI should be considered as a long term indicator after successful completion of the project, in conjunction with customer satisfaction, quality of project deliverable(functions, features and appearance), benefit realization etc..

Regards,
Dear Sungjoon,

i understand what you trying to say here; so should we delete ROI from the possible "tradeoffs" here? What do others think about?
avatar
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Nov 22, 2016 5:04 AM
Replying to Markus Kopko
...
Hi Rami,

this is why the section is called "Tradeoffs", right? ;)

Have added "Safety" to the list; thank you.

Regards,

Markus
You're welcome my friend :-)
Thanks for your initiative and efforts.
avatar
Anupam India
Nov 22, 2016 5:03 AM
Replying to Markus Kopko
...
Hello Anupam,

this points are already in the list?! What do want us to tell?

Regards,

Markus
Sponsors should provide decisions on risks, changes, and conflicts that are beyond PMs Authority.

My question is - Will you be facilitating the problem solving?
avatar
Markus Kopko AI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM AI Coach| PMotion.ai Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hello all,

you can access an interactive online version of the “Knowing your Sponsor” (version 1.0) map here:

http://www.projectmanagement.plus/mp4pmmap...oject%20Sponsor

Please use this version for review.

If you want to use the map and/or work with it, then please download it from here:

http://projectmanagement.plus/en/mp4pm/mp4pm-downloads

You will receive a ZIP/RAR File which not only contain the mindmap as a .mmap and a PDF version (.mmap is the original MindManager file format but could be opened by XMInd too for instance!) but also the content in various other formats (like the popular MS Office formats for instance).

For downloading the map/files you need to be logged in at

www.projectmanagement.plus

If you have any feedback/critic/additions to the map/its content please let a comment as the website or write a posting here.

Thanks a lot!

Please login or join to reply

Content ID:
ADVERTISEMENTS

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

- Rita Rudner

ADVERTISEMENT

Sponsors