Pinnacle Business Solutions is providing key elements of a successful project through a Project Management Success Six-Part Series. While basic in nature, these elements are critical and can help you successfully complete projects for your company.
3. Brandy shares her 15 years of experience in project
management and has created a six-part series highlighting key
elements to a projects success, specifically in the IT
management industry.
Brandy Semore, Pinnacle’s Operations Manager
Follow these actionable steps to help improve the
outcome of projects you lead or participate in at your
organization.
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4. Getting to Know Your Stakeholders
The first step to ensure the success of your project is to identify
and know your stakeholders. This can easily be done by:
•Brainstorming with those already engaged in the project design
process.
•Understanding what the project is trying to accomplish to
understand those who will be impacted. It’s those who are
impacted that should be considered a stakeholder.
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5. Questions to Help Identify Stakeholders
• Who is affected positively or negatively by the project?
• Who gains and who loses from it?
• Who wants it to succeed and who wants it to fail?
• Who makes the money decisions?
• Who are the positive and negative opinion leaders?
• Who exercises influence over other stakeholders?
• Who could solve particular problems?
• Who controls, provides or procures resources and facilities?
• Who holds the skills required by the project?
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6. Prioritize Your Stakeholders
Start this by considering the influence each stakeholder has over
and within a project, as well as their level of interest in the project
due to the impact it may have on them.
A good rule of thumb when prioritizing your stakeholders is to
keep in the mind the well-known power/interest grid for
stakeholder prioritization.
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8. Final Thoughts
Once you have identified your stakeholders and prioritized them
accordingly, you have increased your position statistically to
completing a successful project.
Now you have brought more ideas and perspectives to the table,
gained buy-in and support, avoided blind spots and increased the
credibility of your position and project.
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9. Project Management Success: Part 2
Know Your Requirements
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Learn More
Have questions for Brandy? Email her at brandy.semore@pbsnow.com. Visit
our website to learn more about Pinnacle Business Systems.
10. Project Management Success: Part 2
Know Your Requirements
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Learn More
Have questions for Brandy? Email her at brandy.semore@pbsnow.com. Visit
our website to learn more about Pinnacle Business Systems.