Managing stakeholder concerns and objectives.
Agile stakeholder engagement is often ignored, similar to agile stakeholder management. Time can feel so crunched that management jumps frantically from one problem to the next. They forget to look up, look around, and consider those standing by—the others impacted by the project—sadly leading to failure. That’s why these practices are so important. When you fully engage…
Effective stakeholder management has no one face. For each project, a handful of stakeholder groups have all kinds of requirements at all times. You’ll have those with high levels of power and interest who want to know everything. You’ll have the opposite. Then, you’ll see stakeholders who have very specific needs and reject every attempt at…
Stakeholder engagement is almost always looked over by our fellow project managers. You have a lot going on and barely have enough time in the day as it is. You’re probably looking at this post wondering what the heck this is even for. We get it. Stakeholder engagement just seems like more fluff. But we promise…
Managing stakeholders is an exhausting and labor-intensive complicated process, but only if you let it. We get how easy it is to slip into a worn pattern of putting out fires and fixing problems one after the other. We are here to argue the way it could be different. In this post, we answer some basic…
Stakeholder management is a method that every project manager finds themselves using eventually. You might think a couple of meetings here, and there will cover you, but as you grow, you learn that that is simply not the case. Every project takes place inside an environment, which is almost entirely set up by the stakeholders involved.…
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