Project stakeholder satisfaction

Do you track stakeholder satisfaction during your project? Besides the sponsor, have you identified any other stakeholders worth consulting? Identifying and engaging your stakeholders can position your project for success. Read on for insights into stakeholder engagement. ...

... "One of the best ways to do this is to work with IT project stakeholders -- the people who will be affected in some way, shape or form by the result of the project. " ...

Via SearchCIO for the Mid-Market: Communication with IT project stakeholders

Agile Project Stakeholder Engagement

With its speed and frequency of product builds, agile projects can offer a more engaging stakeholder process through greater frequency of touch-points, faster incorporation of stakeholder feedback, and sustained engagement over the project lifecycle. ...

... "Agile methods, by definition provide improved engagement for these stakeholders using two simple mechanisms: visibility and frequency of delivery. Review your stakeholder engagement map. Have you got the right people involved? " ...

Via InfoQ: Project Stakeholder

Leaders Create Purpose by Engaging Stakeholders

Change professionals ...

ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch ch

... offer their prioritization of critical success factors when managing change. ...

... "Leadership, Purpose and Stakeholder engagement were consistently ranked as the most important factors. " ...

Via Houghley Ltd: Successful Change

Collaborative Sustainability

SAP takes a collaborative approach to developing its strategies for sustainability, as it publishes its first update on the topic. ...

... "The first challenge in preparing this report was to decide what exactly to report on. It is not so obvious for a software company on the basis of risk alone. But once we started to engage with stakeholders over the past 18 months or so it became really clear that what our stakeholders are most interested in is the solutions SAP can provide to other businesses to become more sustainable. " ...

Via SAP Sustainability Blog: First Report

Early Controls Increase Project Efficiency

Build in a brief compliance review early in an IT project to avoid costly rework later in the execution phase. ...

... "As stakeholders in the management of risk, when corporate legal departments provide their input in advance, i.e., during the design phase of an IT project, the resulting controls can be most cost-effectively designed and deployed. " ...

Via Metropolitan Corporate Counsel: Compliance Function

Keep Projects on Track

Nice set of tips for keeping your project on-track and staying focused on the goal. ...

... "You should be spending the bulk of your time talking to and corresponding with project constituents – your team, the stakeholders, vendors, consultants and key end-users. " ...

Via Baseline: Save Your Next Project

Communities of Interest Improve Project Performance

DOD sees project performance benefits after engaging stakeholder communities in the process. Benefits accrue when the community provides input and shares the change among its membership. ...

... "As part of its network-centric data strategy, DOD requires that COIs are part of all of its major projects. And the directive is clearly beginning to pay off ... " ...

Via Government Computer News: Community of Interest, COI

Engage Stakeholders for Project Success

Some tips on positioning a project for success, including video insights. ... Have you identified your user community? Will you need super-users in the community? How will you incorporate user ideas into solution design? Will you need their help in the testing phase? How else can you keep users engaged before the final cutover? Have you segmented the stakeholder population, looking for evangelists or early-adopters to provide the right buzz? As project manager, you may not have time to do all of this, but identify a role on your project team to take on these actions. They'll pay off. ...

... "ensuring that the right stakeholders have been identified, particularly in an IT project – the user community, and that there's a mechanism for them to be involved in the project design and monitoring the progress of the project as it proceeds. " ...

Via Canada ITWorld: Stakeholder collaboration

Identify and Manage Stakeholders: Position Project For Success

Managing change well on IT projects includes understanding and planning for various stakeholder groups. Use techniques such as customer segmentation to manage communications and stakeholder involvement, as appropriate. ...

... "To deliver both high awareness and support, Everett said that managers should identify key stakeholders, define their current problems, and map how the functionality of a new IT system will improve on these aspects. " ...

Via ComputerWeekly: IT project