A stakeholder is any person or group that affects, or is affected by, a particular project. Along the path to completing your project, stakeholders can be partners, resources or roadblocks -- and ...

If you’re managing a project, it’s important to ensure you involve all the different people and groups that can impact the project’s success. Otherwise, you risk missing key perspectives or getting ...

A project's most influential stakeholders have both the desire and ability to affect not only steps involved in project management but also the final outcome. While some might be important allies, ...

Understanding your stakeholders is a crucial part of project management. If you don’t carefully manage stakeholders and their concerns and expectations, you risk generating backlash to your project, ...

As a manager and particularly if you work in project management, it is your responsibility to build strong stakeholder relationships established by trust, and mutual values and goals. As a manager and ...

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When IT project manager Steve Hawrysh was brought in to a Midwestern fulfillment services company to fix a half-million-dollar project that was going nowhere, the first thing he noticed was that there ...

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