Rule 1: The Bag of Money and the Baseball Bat
This rule is the most important of all the rules we are covering in this chapter.
The management of contemporary business and IT projects involves many stakeholders and service providers. For the project manager, the need for a sponsor who can assist in the resolution of the inevitable conflicts that arise throughout the project is critical.
A simple example comes from the area of project scope and objectives. We have seen this issue on literally every project that our group has been involved with. As shown in Figure 20.1, it is likely that each of the represented stakeholder groups will see the scope and objectives of the project differently. The project team members supported by the members of Stakeholder ...
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