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Stakeholder management: Your guide to influencing project outcomes

CIO

Stakeholder management is vital to project success. Many project managers struggle to implement effective stakeholder management, despite its importance. IT can’t be successful without good stakeholder coordination and management,” says Barry Brunsman, a principal in advisory at KPMG, a professional services firm.

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Mending the rift between business stakeholders and development teams

Xebia

In today’s business world, the synergy between stakeholders, product management and development teams are paramount. Often, work that was primed for production had to be entirely redone: This was primarily because, during the Sprint reviews, stakeholders found the work unsuitable for production.

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Better Stakeholder Management: How to Turn Stress into Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Use these communication techniques to keep even the most difficult stakeholders on your side Stakeholder management is an art most of us learn the hard way. If you’ve been involved in stakeholder management for more than a minute, you’ve probably met a few of these well-meaning, challenging stakeholders.

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What to Do When Stakeholders Have Competing Visions

Harvard Business Review

It’s not uncommon for multiple stakeholders within companies to have differing visions or even competing agendas. If that doesn’t work, the person managing the conflict can take the next step and gather all the interested stakeholders to discuss the situation.

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7 Winning Lead Generation Strategies to Drive Growth

Identify the stakeholders who are in-market for your products/services. As B2B companies pivot to keep pace with a quickly changing marketplace, a data-centric approach to lead generation can be the difference between remaining competitive or being left behind. Target and reach your highest-value prospects.

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A Guide for Getting Stakeholder Buy-In for Your Agenda

Harvard Business Review

This article offers four key domains you can focus on to ensure you’ve prepared an agenda-setting mission: adopting an enterprise perspective, leveraging your strategic mindset, cultivating stakeholder awareness, and considering your personal motives and risks.

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How to Manage the Most Difficult Stakeholders

Let's Grow Leaders

Difficult stakeholders are a chance to grow your influence You look at the phone and your heart sinks. The post How to Manage the Most Difficult Stakeholders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. It’s the night before you’re supposed to wrap up your assignment and brief the leadership team on what you’ve done.

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Navigating the Product Tightrope: Balancing Innovation and Current User Demands

Speaker: Jason Brett - Founder & Chief Product Officer, Product Coffee

Learning Objectives: Review the challenges of balancing innovation and current user demands: Explore the fundamental principles behind balancing innovation and user needs, and understand the potential consequences of neglecting either aspect Align innovation with user needs: Learn techniques for gathering user feedback, analyzing market trends, and (..)

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At Last, the Secrets to Effective Stakeholder and Board Member Communications are Revealed!

Speaker: Heather Wilde, Coach, Speaker, and CTO at theDifference | Pandora Ovanessian, CIO, VP of Technology, and Technology Consultant | Steve McConnell, Author of Code Complete and CEO at Construx Software

Translating engineering and technological jargon in an accessible way, one that encourages contribution for improvement and helps your stakeholders understand your organizations achievements, is difficult. In order to do this correctly, CTOs must have a framework in place that allows them to impart this critical information.

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Software Delivery Metrics for the C-Suite

A key challenge for all technology leaders is building a strong relationship with internal stakeholders and customers. Often, senior stakeholders view technology delivery as a ‘black box’. It incurs a lot of costs and is strategically critical - but is very little understood.

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Going Beyond Account-Based Marketing: Why ABM-i is the Wave of the Future

Evolve beyond account-based marketing and create a hyper-personalized approach that considers stakeholders as individuals. Learn 8 strategies to use data and technology to create scalable yet personalized ABM programs. Download the guide.

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Cracking the Code to Product Team Success: Data, Empathy, and Extraordinary Communication

Speaker: Donna Shaw - Senior Product Manager & Eric Frierson - Director of Innovation for Public and School Libraries

Establishing effective communication channels with team members and stakeholders can be a daunting task. Nonetheless, by leveraging foresight and valuable insights, you can cultivate a thriving product management team that works together harmoniously to craft customer-centric products.

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The Science of High-Impact Experimentation

Speaker: Holly Hester-Reilly, Founder and Product Management Coach, H2R Product Science

She’ll walk us through the entire process, from deciding what to test to sharing the results with stakeholders, to illustrate what strong experimentation practices look like and how they can be implemented in every organization. How to share results with stakeholders to get alignment on product decisions. When to test an assumption.

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. This lack of insight makes it impossible for these teams to prioritize.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

In this talk, Beekey will cover: How to have productive conversations about estimates, goals, and commitments with stakeholders to get alignment and ultimately deliver better products. Failure to do so hurts both your company and your relationships with stakeholders. Projects where estimates are not appropriate and what to do instead.