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What is Stakeholder-led Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. The final type of project at the other end of the continuum is where stakeholders have a lot of power and influence over the project. A version of this article appeared on the site in 2020.

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The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. Larger projects are likely to have higher numbers of people with power involved because they tend to attract greater corporate governance and oversight – so the top management likes to know what is going on. Things that can’t wait? Dominant stakeholders.

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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Shanghai has some huge projects underway including: The Shanghai Urban Rail Transit Expansion: piling work on the new high-speed line began in November 2020. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics ( budget : US$5.9bn) were postponed as a result of the global pandemic, but investment in infrastructure and megaprojects continues.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. I hope to write another book in 2020, but I am waiting to see what my audience wants to know more about before I start that. Thanks, Ruth!

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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Instead, the ECO talks about communication, knowledge transfer, engaging the team, governance and a whole lot more that you would often use meetings to accomplish. Tip: Just because we’ve spent a lot of time since 2020 working in virtual teams doesn’t mean everyone is confident (still with tech). 4: Don’t Default To Mute.

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How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These situations include: governance related issues (e.g. We found that the project environment plays a crucial role in creating challenging situations involving stakeholders for project managers and that project managers can often take active measures to influence and improve this. way of communication). The structural environment.

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How to Navigate the Project Environment Even if You’re New to Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Their needs, expectations, and influences are diverse. Compliance and Governance Awareness of regulatory requirements and governance structures ensures that projects comply with legal standards and organizational policies. Compliance and governance are not optional.