Managing your project’s scope is critical to managing the expectations of your stakeholders and ensuring your project’s work breakdown structure (WBS), budget, and schedule remain aligned with the project’s scope …
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What is stakeholder management?
A few weeks ago, a coaching client of mine asked me to explain stakeholder management. He wanted me to provide him with a definitive list of his stakeholders for his …
How To Maintain Positive Stakeholder Engagement In Business Analysis
According to the PMI Guide to Business Analysis, “A stakeholder is an individual, group, or organization who may affect, be affected by or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, …
Post-Covid: Accelerating workforce planning strategies with limited and remote resources
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic posed many new challenges for organizations looking to rapidly and effectively scale up their resources to meet project goals. Here are some things …
Empowering your project portfolio: What is empowerment?
When you are empowered, you understand the importance of asking questions to reveal the information needed to ensure the success of your project portfolio, and leaders understand the importance of …
Closing or terminating a project, what is the difference?
Potato, “Patate” they are all the same, aren’t they? Well, yes, for the legume apart from the language thrown in. So, are closing and terminating a project/phase the same thing? …
How do you know if your risk planning and strategies are working?
As project managers, we often have our plate full when it comes to tracking and documenting the success or failure of a planned outcome. We do tend to focus on …
How To Create And Unearth More Benefits With Program Management
The benefits of a program management office should be apparent. If this isn’t the case, you’ll want to read this. Philip Kotler, the guru of marketing, defined the purpose of …
Don’t get lost in metrics, it’s still all about the people
Performance metrics are incredibly useful to managers and business stakeholders by indicating progress, forecasting completion, identifying risks, and determining the effectiveness of a strategy. Truly intuitive metrics are a powerful …
Do you follow these five rules before your kick-off meeting?
Interested in finding out more about project kick-off meeting rules? Used in most organizations to usher the start of a new project, the kick-off meetings have become a key if …