Understanding the needs and expectations of stakeholders in your client's project can only make your job easier. Here's a look at two tools and a series of questions you can ask to help you gather ...

It's all too easy, when you manage a project, to become so involved with your team and the work at hand that you overlook a very important group of people: your sponsor and stakeholders—in other words ...

Projects are most often a participatory process in which differing levels of participation play a role in achieving a successful project outcome. Participation requirements, however, aren't the same ...

A stakeholder is any person or group that affects, or is affected by, a particular project. Along the path to completing your project, stakeholders can be partners, resources or roadblocks -- and ...

Stakeholders play a vital role in the outcome of projects. Here's guidance on selecting the ideal stakeholders for your specific project. The role of project stakeholders should not be underestimated ...

If you’re managing a project, it’s important to ensure you involve all the different people and groups that can impact the project’s success. Otherwise, you risk missing key perspectives or getting ...

Understanding your stakeholders is a crucial part of project management. If you don’t carefully manage stakeholders and their concerns and expectations, you risk generating backlash to your project, ...

(This article is part one of a two-part series outlining key questions a leader should ask during a project kickoff meeting to head off costly confusion and risk during the life of the project.) ...