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Knowing your stakeholders' values can unearth career opportunities you might not have considered. This can help you in your personal and professional growth. Let's take a look at some crucial stakeholders—and the benefits they can provide.
It all started with a webinar on ProjectManagement.com and the follow-up questions received from participants. This inspired the presenters' decision to embark on the adventure of writing a book—which became a complex project unto itself.
Like the project manager, a wedding planner must work with various vendors, suppliers and participants involved in the wedding. These are the project team members, each with a specific role to play in bringing the wedding vision to life.
It’s no longer enough for product managers to work only with other managers. Many individuals will be working on projects as team members, stakeholders and customers. Getting to know them will continue to increase in importance.
Activities might help your team. However, they are not real progress. Focus on what the user needs and deliver that. Then do that again and again. That’s how you de-risk projects and make real progress.
Get to know RAVES, a value-based, stakeholder-focused, iterative approach to project management that drives efficiently toward prioritized outcomes—while simultaneously seeking to gain improved stakeholder engagement, build relationships, and enhance value of the projects.
When you go into an organization cold, you can be seen as an outsider who has high potential to cause problems. With the right preparation and communications points, you can influence critical partners to be on your side.
Project managers need a lot of diverse skills to succeed. Is customer service one of them? If we apply customer service principles to the idea of stakeholder management, it’s fairly easy to identify ways in which the PM can contribute to success.
Engaging stakeholders does not simply mean finding out what they want, and attempting to deliver it. Stakeholder groups often have conflicting requirements and desires, and there is no way to give everyone what they want, all of the time.
If you have friction in your sponsor relationships, consider these guidelines and decide where you and your sponsor have the most room to improve—and ensure you work together effectively when delivering solutions.
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