The ability to effectively manage stakeholders is typically the determining factor in the success of a project in the expansive field of project management. This book provides the necessary tools and a firm foundation for mastering interactions with all project stakeholders. You will be well-equipped to execute your activities efficiently if you have access to distinct concepts and examples of best practices.
No project management training? No problem! In today’s workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are, you aren’t formally trained in managing projects—you’re an unofficial project manager. FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon and Suzette Blakemore understand the importance of leadership in project completion and explain that people are crucial in the formula for success. This updated and revised edition of Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager offers practical, real-world insights for effective project management and guides you through the essentials of the value, people, and project management process: Scope Plan Engage Track and Adapt Close If you’re struggling to ensure multiple projects are finished with high value and on time, this book is for you. If you manage projects without the benefit of a team, this book is also for you. Change the way you think about project management—"project manager" may not be your official title, but with the right strategies, you can excel in this project economy.
Carrying out a project as planned is not a guarantee for success. Projects may fail because project management does not take the requirements, wishes and concerns of stakeholders sufficiently into account. Projects can only be successful through contributions from stakeholders. And it is the stakeholders that evaluate whether they find the project successful - an evaluation based on criteria that go beyond receiving the project deliverables. More often than not, the criteria are implicit and change during the project course. This is an enormous challenge for project managers. The route to better projects, say Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen, lies in finding ways to improve project stakeholder management. To manage stakeholders effectively, you need to know your stakeholders, their behaviours and attitudes towards the project. The authors give guidance on how to adopt an analytical and structured approach; how to document, store and retrieve your knowledge; how to plan your stakeholder interactions in advance; and how to make your plans explicit, at the very least internally. A well-conceived plan can prevent you from being carried away in the ’heat of the moment’ and help you spend your limited resources for stakeholder management in the best way. To make this plan, you need to agree on the objectives of your stakeholder strategy and ways to achieve them. Project Stakeholder Management offers tactics and tools founded on established marketing communications theory as well as strategic management for doing just that. This book is part of Gower’s Fundamentals of Project Management Series.
The keys to project management success delivered by one of the world's most respected experts in the field Why do some project managers achieve their project goals while others fail? Drawing on his years of experience as a recognized global expert on project management and organizational change, author Tres Roeder answers that question, and lays out a proven path to project success. Focusing on the major differences between project management and other types of management—not least of them being the temporary nature of projects versus the repetitive nature of most managerial tasks—Roeder describes best practices in all key areas of managing project stakeholders. A recognized global expert on project management provides the foundational elements required for project management success Contributes toward the fulfillment of the continuing education required every three years to maintain PMP® accreditation Uses real-world scenarios and relevant case studies to present project management concepts to beginning and intermediate PMP®s Contains chapters on Leadership, Buy In, and Negotiation for more advanced project managers (PMP and Project Management Professional are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.)
This book sets out a systematic way to understand who you need to influence, how to evaluate the priority you give to each person, what tactics will work the best, and how to plan and execute your campaign. It provides powerful tools and processes which use the psychology of influence and grounds them in experience of managing projects and change.
Managing Change in Organizations: A Practice Guide is unique in that it integrates two traditionally disparate world views on managing change: organizational development/human resources and portfolio/program/project management. By bringing these together, professionals from both worlds can use project management approaches to effectively create and manage change. This practice guide begins by providing the reader with a framework for creating organizational agility and judging change readiness.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, grade: 1,3, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: Due to the change in our society from an industrial society to an information society, the number of projects in companies is increasing and at the same time their degree of complexity. This complexity of projects brings with it a number of problems. One of them is the number of stakeholders, which also increases as the size of the project increases. A stakeholder is a person or a group of people who are positively or negatively affected by the project or its product. In short, a person who has an interest in the project. Thus, as the number of stakeholders increases, so does the diversity of interests. When there is a diversity of interests, sooner or later conflicts will naturally arise. These conflicts can significantly jeopardise the success of the project. Stakeholder analysis is a way to deal with this problem. It is typically divided into the steps of identification, classification and assessment and is carried out either as part of a project environment analysis or as part of stakeholder management. Due to the importance of stakeholders and their incongruent interests with regard to the project, as described above, it is obvious that a stakeholder analysis is a critical success factor for projects. Based on the results of three studies from 2006-2008 by the German Association for Project Management (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e.V., GPM). (GPM), this was examined for its truth content. The thesis could not be easily proven. Although the results of the studies suggest a high importance of communication in the project and of stakeholder management, it cannot be concluded beyond doubt that stakeholder analysis is a critical success factor for projects. Nevertheless, it can at least be recognised that stakeholder analysis plays a weighty role for recognised critical success factors such as project communication or stakeholder management. Stakeholder analysis lays the foundation here.
This book captures best practice in construction stakeholdermanagement using a range of international case studies. Itdemonstrates stakeholder mapping, presents the power/interestmatrix and analyses a model for the timely engagement ofstakeholders. The increased use of partnering and other relational forms ofcontracting have underlined the need for project participants towork together and also to be aware of all those who can affect orbe affected by a project and its associated developments.Stakeholder management enables them to see this wider picture andprovides guidance for managing the diverse views and interests thatcan manifest in the course of a project’s life. All construction projects have the potential for conflicts ofinterest that can result in costly and damaging legal proceedings.This new book advocates an alternative to dispute resolution thatis proactive, practical and global in its application.Construction Stakeholder Management is therefore anessential text for advanced students, lecturers, researchers andpractitioners in the built environment.
Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success provides a practical approach to managing those things that matter most for project success-stakeholder expectations, communication, risk, change, and quality-so that scope, schedule, and cost end up on target and the project's intended benefits for the organization are realized. This unique desk reference shows how to utilize the best practices, concepts, and methodologies found in PMI's PMBOK® Guide, along with a few concepts from APMG's PRINCE2, and leverage them in the context of organizational challenges and project realities. It features new methods for successful project management that focus on understanding and managing stakeholders' needs and expectations, communication, time management, and organizational politics and culture. The book's content and design also make it a valuable resource for PMP® certification. Key Features Provides tips for deciphering organizational politics, and tools for analyzing all stakeholders to learn how to manage their expectations, how to treat them, what to expect from them, and how to design an effective communication plan, applicable and efficient for addressing each of their needs Discusses methods for reducing requirement and scope changes and measuring the individual and overall impact of changes in the pipeline and their associated risks Presents techniques and metrics for determining project health and interim performance beyond the traditional ways of measuring deliverables and results Explains how to prioritize risks and responses based on organizational and project priorities so they align with objectives and success criteria Demonstrates how to utilize and leverage best practices outlined in PMI's PMBOK® Guide within the context of organizational challenges and project realities Illustrates how to apply the knowledge presented and provides an integration framework for performing it properly WAV offers downloadable checklists for determining project readiness and complexity, templates for quality and communication planning, and other tools - available from the Web Added ValueTM Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com.
The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed. So, you’ve been asked to manage a project. Not sure where to start? Start here. This is your ultimate one-stop, easy-going and very friendly guide to delivering any project of any size. Even if you’re a first time, never-done-it-before, newbie project manager, How to Manage a Great Project will get you from start to finish on budget, on target and on time.
