CHAPTER 7

Stakeholder Engagement in an Agile World

More projects, faster delivery, and higher rates of business change. This increased pace is the challenge faced by many organizations today. Increasing the throughput on projects takes a lot more than just working faster. Indeed, working harder and faster will never address this—it has to be working differently.

One thing I am very sure of:

Faster delivery, forced upon projects at the expense of reduced or inappropriate stakeholder engagement, will always be unsuccessful.

And this is particularly the case on those projects at the middle and top end of our stakeholder continuum—projects whose raison d’etre is defined by stakeholder-focused critical success factors.

In this last chapter, we ...

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