A while ago I wrote “Rules Rule.” at Gantthead.com: “For years I thought I hated rules. But I realized, I absolutely adore them. … … before you can bent rules, you have to study them. Learn them. Know them. And I love studying them. Rules provide you with a sense of expectations. And meeting stakeholders …
Can you have a leadership theory with 2 three-letter words? “Yay” and “Meh”. If a person thinks his hopes (positive expectations) are coming true, he’s motivated, productive and energized. The same holds for anyone who assumes his fears (negative expectations) are not becoming a reality. That’s “yay!” If someone sees his hopes shattered or fears …
Different expectations of the end result among stakeholders and project team members can be a huge problem in projects. There is even a famous cartoon about this: it is about the customer expecting a swing on a tree, and all the different interpretations of it by others. You can visit ProjectCartoon.com to view this cartoon …
Projects are like company earnings. Beat expectations and everybody is happy. Perform below expectations and you’re doomed. Or in different words. A happy stakeholder is a productive stakeholder. An unhappy stakeholder is giving you headaches.
In order to have a “happy project,” a software project manager should respect the flow of the stakes… Stakeholders have stakes. Stakeholders communicate their stakes by expressing their expectations, which are more formally defined by means of requirements to the process or product. Project management should make every stakeholder a winner by accepting and inventing …