Managing IT Projects: How to Pragmatically Deliver Projects for External Customers

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M. DąbrowskiManaging IT Projectshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9243-3_8

8. The Steering Committee As a Project Manager’s Tool

Marcin Dąbrowski¹  

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Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland

 

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

—Henry Ford

The steering committee’s meetings are usually seen as stressful events. You could almost say that for a lot of people, taking part in them generates more tension and fear than working on the project, however difficult and exhausting it is. Steering committees gather top executives and directors from the client’s side as well as their counterparts from the supplier’s side. It often turns ...