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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what organizational process assets are, why you would use them in project management and some best practices for utilizing these important tools.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What is a project steering group?

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An Introduction to Project Steering Groups

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A Project Steering Group is the oversight committee of a project. You might use the term Project Board or Governance Committee, or something else that means a similar thing. All projects should have one, but the make up of the group depends on your project. The Members of the Project Steering Group.

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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. Stakeholder-neutral. IT projects often fall into this category.

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What Is a Stakeholder? Definitions, Types & Examples

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A stakeholder is either an individual, group or organization who is impacted by the outcome of a project or a business venture. Stakeholders are very important because they can have a positive or negative influence on the project with their decisions. Government: These stakeholders get taxes and gross domestic product from a project.

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The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management relies on people: you need the project team to get things done, and that team might include members of different stakeholder groups. This is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. This group has high power and also high legitimacy to influence the project.

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Project Decision-Making: A Process Guide For How To Do It Better

Rebel’s Guide to PM

All of them are part of the project governance framework. It’s helpful to have a decision-making process or framework to guide you, especially when faced with complex problems that require additional info from others. There are 5 steps the decision-making process in project management. Who doesn’t want that?

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