At the upcoming PMI Benelux Day in Antwerp October 2nd I will be hosting a workshop called: “Stakeholder Management: We’re Off To See The Wizard”. If you are attending, it would be awesome if you dropped by. You can learn a lot about Stakeholder Management from The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy has a problem: she …
You wouldn’t expect a Stakeholder Management workshop to be called “We’re Off To See The Wizard”, would you? Talking about The Yellow Brick Road-technique, keeping the Wicked Witch of The West out of your project, and, well, going to see the Wizard. Ah yes. The Wizard Of Oz as a metaphor! for Stakeholder Management. I …
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.
Ah. Adventure Maps. I was happily surprised that Mondays post about Project Adventure Maps took so much interest. As it should. Away with spreadsheets, checklists and grid prisons. Bring on your crayons! So. Adventure Mapping. A highly playful, interactive and intuitive way of communicating complex elements in your project.
While preparing a workshop stakeholder management, I came across an article I wrote four years ago. Using Stakeholder Analysis in Software Project Management “Every improvement you make with the goal of improving your ability to do projects better should involve how to handle the human element more effectively, as this is the area where we …