Strategies for Project Sponsorship

CHAPTER 6

Sponsor Responsibilities and Best Practices

In this chapter, we detail many of the sponsor responsibilities listed in the Sponsor’s Responsibilities Evaluation Tool (Figure 2-2) and share some related best practices, ones that project managers wish their sponsors understood. These best practices are based on decades of experience in project management and have been passed down project manager to project manager through organizations such as the Project Management Institute and the Association for Project Management. We believe in these best practices and have seen the benefits that they bring to our projects (or perhaps the chaos that ...