by Elizabeth Harrin | Jun 21, 2022 | Books, Project Sponsor, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links.
Ron Rosenhead, co-author of Strategies for Project Sponsorship Are you wondering how to build a better relationship with your project sponsor? I spoke to the authors of Strategies for Project Sponsorship, a book about how to sponsor projects, and reading it from a...
by Elizabeth Harrin | May 23, 2022 | Project Sponsor, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links.
What does it mean to be a great project sponsor? The project sponsor’s role is diverse. It’s far more than being a figurehead for the project. It’s a decision-making, direction-setting role. If you are leading a project in a sponsorship capacity, or want to...
by Elizabeth Harrin | May 20, 2022 | Project Sponsor, Stakeholders
Meeting a project sponsor for the first time is an opportunity to impress. It’s also your chance to start the project off well by understanding exactly what it is that your sponsor wants from you. You can start to get an idea of how the two of you will work together...
by Elizabeth Harrin | May 16, 2022 | Glossary, Stakeholders, This article contains affiliate links., virtual teams
“Virtuality…is a critique on how work gets done,” writes Thomas P. Wise in his book, Trust in Virtual Teams. Before I read the book, I defined a virtual team as one that was split over several locations. If the team was physically located together, then they weren’t...
by John Edmonds | May 13, 2022 | Stakeholders
Noise hinders communication. It’s so obvious that I hesitate to say it. But it is often something that is overlooked when we are planning communication activities with stakeholders. Noise, in communication terms, means any interference that makes it harder for the...
by Elizabeth Harrin | Apr 27, 2022 | Stakeholders
To err is human. But if you’re a project manager, erring isn’t really something you can afford to do. Even a tiny mistake on your end could cost the organization a lot of money, or worse still, the entire project. And if things go really wrong, your colleagues will...