By this time you as Project Manager will be introduced to a lot of people related to the project. Find out how and why they are stakeholders in your project. Stakeholders are people with considerable interest in your project and can influence the course of the project. They could be seniors from your organization, managers from client organization, senior managers in client organization who could be the sponsors, end users, media and so on.
Each stakeholder will have their idea of how the project should be run to meet the objectives and that is the source of politics. Don’t under estimate the power of any stakeholder in helping as well as hindering your project. Check the next few posts to understand more about the power struggles and how it matters, sometimes more than even project objectives or customer satisfaction!!
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13:42, 23.02.2010
This is very true – as you move up the ladder, many a times, you spend ‘managing the expectations’ and ‘managing the stakeholders’… of course, for good