Managing Stakeholder Expectations: A Knowledge Integration Framework and Value Focused Approach - Hardcover

"This book approaches project management as a business discipline, placing stakeholder management, communications, decision making, and quality on par with schedule, scope, risk, and budget management. It offers advice beyond traditional tools and templates, while distilling project management into practical and easy to implement concepts." -- Glen Sloutsky, Senior Manager "Advisory Services Firm"; "Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success shares a keen understanding of what successful project management truly entails, and effectively prepares PMs for implementations." -Rhona Berengut, Principal, SIGMA Strategic Solutions Inc.; "This reference demonstrates why 'soft skills' matter most and provides uncommon guidance for project managers that only comes from years of successful experience." -Howard Podeswa, Curriculum Developer, Noble Inc. and Author of The Business Analyst's Handbook

Managing Stakeholder Expectations for Project Success provides a practical approach to managing those things that matter most for project success-stakeholder expectations, communication, risk, change, and quality-so that scope, schedule, and cost end up on target and the project's intended benefits for the organization are realized.This unique desk reference shows how to utilize the best practices, concepts, and methodologies found in PMI's PMBOK Guide, along with a few concepts from APMG's PRINCE2, and leverage them in the context of organizational challenges and project realities. It features new methods for successful project management that focus on understanding and managing stakeholders' needs and expectations, communication, time management, and organizational politics and culture. The book's content and design also make it a valuable resource for PMP certification.