16-02-2013, 11:16 AM
Supporting Project Managers in building sustainable relationships for project success.
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In the current project environment...
Many team members
will only be part of the team as long as their specialist skills are required
come from different organisational backgrounds and cultures
may be geographically dispersed
A small core team will be responsible for project delivery
Organisations change constantly - a project’s stakeholder set will change:
Senior Managers change roles or change companies
The ability of stakeholders to influence the project may increase or decrease
The Project Manager is still accountable for successful delivery of the project; there are good reasons for project responsibilities to be shared:
Sharing workload and coaching of less experienced members
Knowledge Management
This project will investigate the effectiveness of a tool - the Stakeholder Circle - to provide support for the PM and project team in managing the project’s stakeholders.
Background
Managing relationships for project success is acknowledged as being as important as the ‘hard’ skills of managing schedules and budgets
The Project Manager’s accountabilities include relationship management (Stakeholder Management)
A project’s stakeholder set does not remain static throughout the project and needs to be identified, tracked and managed appropriately throughout the project lifecycle
In large organisations today, many projects have team members from many different organisations. Teams consist of staff, contractors, and staff of other organisations
As specialists move in and out of projects, there is a small core team that manages throughout the lifecycle.
This core team should share responsibility for Stakeholder Management: workload management, coaching, knowledge management, personality matching
To facilitate this sharing it is essential to have a solid process and the support of a tool.
Research Methods - approach
Deductive Approach
testing theory through observation and data
Exploratory Study
Purposive, self-selection sampling
Longitudinal
projects must be around 6 months in length
In-depth interviews at beginning and end with PM
Group interviews with key team members
Self-completion diaries
to track issues and changes in stakeholder relationships with project