Understanding your stakeholders is a crucial part of project management. If you don’t carefully manage stakeholders and their concerns and expectations, you risk generating backlash to your project, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. We all know that stakeholder mapping is an essential element ...

If you’re managing a project, it’s important to ensure you involve all the different people and groups that can impact the project’s success. Otherwise, you risk missing key perspectives or getting ...

A project's most influential stakeholders have both the desire and ability to affect not only steps involved in project management but also the final outcome. While some might be important allies, ...

As a manager and particularly if you work in project management, it is your responsibility to build strong stakeholder relationships established by trust, and mutual values and goals. As a manager and ...

Anyone who has a stake or a vested interest in a particular project is a project stakeholder. The term can refer to someone who has the ability to affect the direction or outcome of the project, but ...

It's all too easy, when you manage a project, to become so involved with your team and the work at hand that you overlook a very important group of people: your sponsor and stakeholders—in other words ...

An agile project can be fun, exciting, and wildly successful -- as long as the stakeholders don't drive you crazy in the process. These expert tips should help. Agile methodologies have set their ...

Gaining trust and cooperation from a project team is imperative for success. Here are some ways to improve communication with stakeholders and make sure they feel like an important part of a team. Buy ...