Program Management(PgM)
Stakeholder Management for Program Managers
The one aspect that gives program management an almost political edge is the practice of stakeholder management. In so far as politics is about the art of harvesting advantage based on faith in relationships past and present, stakeholder management is about managing perceptions about projects, beyond the actual outcomes or benefits of such projects.
Step One – Meeting the players
The first step in stakeholder management is stakeholder identification. Not all stakeholders are created equally and so it’s wise to rank and identify them according to the degree of power and influence they might exercise on your projects and project teams. As program manager, you will find that you need to get closer to the high rollers and stay away from the pretenders. Continue Reading
Key Challenges in Program Management
In a recent seminar I held for project managers, I was surprised at the questions I was getting from what I thought was a novice audience. I tried underplaying the context, promising to answer in more detail at a later engagement but the participants really seemed hungry to understand the bigger issues behind project management. I sensed a distinct hum of mindsets elevating their threshold of consciousness the moment I mentioned program management.
