Questions tagged [stakeholders]
Use this tag for questions about communicating with stakeholders, managing stakeholder expectations and interactions, or integrating stakeholders into the project management process.
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Aren't stakeholder expected to adopt an agile mindset when working in a Scrum framework?
What is expected of the stakeholders when it comes to being agile? Since collaboration is at the heart of agile, shouldn't the adoption of agile values be present on both sides?
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Adding new team members to a late project
According to Brooks' Law, adding more people to a late project will make the project later (or by analogy, nine women cannot have a baby in one month). The increased lateness is due to the fact that ...
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Maintenance project with insufficient staff - what should PM do?
There is a project with huge technical debt which is currently in maintenance phase. However because of the technical debt a lot of effort is needed to keep the thing running - 3 people should ...
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How to neutralize negative project stakeholders?
There are positive and negative stakeholders in every project (according to PMBOK). Positive ones will benefit from project implementation, for example their work will become more effective, more ...
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Testing and customer acceptance of a project is dragging on forever
I'm the only software developer and project manager for the technical side of a project we're delivering for one of our clients. We initially agreed to and signed-off on a high-level spec that we ...
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How do you get stakeholders who don't care engaged?
Background – We are a small group (three PMs reporting to a director) doing business improvement projects for a large company. Problems with our processes have been identified, in particular going ...
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In an agile consultancy, is the Client the Product Owner?
I'm interested in understanding how agile project management differs between a single product-focused team and a digital agency or software development consulting firm.
For starters, in a situation ...
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Is it still possible to use formal methods if the organization has chosen not to adopt them?
I managed a project in a company where I was the only person with experience of using formal methods (Prince 2).
The directors of the company, and the other senior staff, all took the attitude that ...
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How to deal with chaotic stakeholder who is high in pecking order?
Consider you run a project where a key stakeholder is one of VPs. She is a typical hit-and-run type of person: she comes to a project team with half-baked idea, either refuses to discuss details ...
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How shall developers clarify PBI during its implementation?
Should developers have direct communication with stakeholders during Product Backlog Items implementation for their clarification. Or should all communication go through Product Owner?
On the Scrum ...
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How to deal with unclear requirements?
We're a company manufacturing moulds and other tools that our customers then use in their machines.
I was given a set of requirements for building a web application, which someone thinks that our ...
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