Böcker av Ori Schibi

"Effective Project and Change Sponsorship addresses the challenges that organizations face surrounding the sponsorship of projects and change initiatives. This long overdue book provides techniques, remedies, and approaches to improve the way these initiatives are sponsored, led, and executed to ensure context, alignment, and a focus on value creation. Readers will learn key concepts about specific aspects of project sponsorship, including overcoming the most common and challenging project-related obstacles, connecting the key elements of project and change management, and advanced techniques to effectively engage stakeholders and manage their expectations"--

This desk reference: Discusses the importance of setting ground rules in building a foundation for project success, and outlines concepts for defining success criteria and tying them to project constraints Proposes ways to decipher organizational politics and techniques for improving vertical collaboration through relationship-building and understanding each other's needs to the benefit of a project Provides checklists and measures to determine how prepared an organization is for undertaking a project and addresses questions and observation points to quantify project complexity, so as to better prepare decision makers Presents questions, checklists and tips of things to look for when analyzing stakeholders that will draw a clearer picture of how to manage their expectations, what to expect from them, how to treat them, and how to design a communication plan applicable, relevant, effective and efficient to address all stakeholders' needs Describes ways to determine project health through multiple measures that check a project's interim performance beyond traditional ways of measuring deliverables and results Reviews techniques to reduce the number of requirement and scope changes introduced throughout a project and offers a simple process that enables the proper measure of change impact and associated risks, including the overall impact taking into consideration all other changes in the pipeline Explains how to prioritize risks based on organizational and project priorities for better alignment with objectives, and how to break down the process of risk response into all of its components to align them with the project success criteria Illustrates the link between effective management of quality, risk, communication and change, and delivering success on the traditional measures of scope, time and cost, and the project's intended benefits to the organization Introduces a framework of what integration really means and how to perform it properly

KEY FEATURES: ¢¢Applies concepts that are aligned with the PMBOK Guide, BABOK and the PMI-PBASM, CBAP/ CCBA certification exams ¢¢Provides proven concepts and approaches for developing functionally harmonious partnerships between the PM and BA roles, within their own context and specific challenges, that maximizes the business value these roles can produce, and ensures the partnerships are maintained from the business case to post project evaluation ¢¢Addresses the challenges associated with the role definitions, overlaps and gaps between the PM and BA roles and introduces collaboration techniques to improve resource allocation, efficiency and effectiveness in projects and the organization ¢¢Illustrates the flow of work and responsibilities between the PM and BA through both the project and product lifecycles ¢¢Offers downloadable checklists for determining Agile suitability, and PM and BA role collaboration areas, a variety of requirements elicitation and management checklists, and other tools at the J. Ross Publishing website