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Article Decision Making, Leadership, Scope Management, Stakeholder Engagement 1 October 2017

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Fork in the Road

By Rockwood, Kate Scuffle, settle or surrender? That's the choice Farhan Shamim, PMP, faced last year while he oversaw a program to rebuild 26 schools affected by severe flooding in Pakistan. The program was going…

Conference Paper Leadership, Decision Making, Stakeholder Engagement 12 October 2010

Negotiating with my sponsor

By Englund, Randall L. Much has been written about the crucial project role played by project sponsors. And many of these studies have focused on recommending techniques that can help project managers engage their…

Conference Paper Stakeholder Engagement, Decision Making, Leadership 24 February 2010

Running with scissors

By Semeniuk, Monica Project success is often gauged by how well a project meets a stakeholder's expectations. But since projects usually involve more than one stakeholder, and thus accommodate multiple--sometimes…

Article Decision Making, Teams, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Stakeholder Engagement March 1977

Project Management Quarterly

A summary of major research findings regarding the human element in project management

By Baker, Bruce N. In only two decades, project management has matured into a widely utilized system for administering complex project activities. During the first decade, the research on project management focused on…