As stakeholder relationships and business in general have become increasingly central to the unfolding of stakeholder thinking, important new topics have begun to take centre stage in both the worlds of practitioners and academics. The role of project management becomes immeasurably more challenging, when stakeholders are no longer seen as simple objects of managerial action but rather as subjects with their own objectives and purposes. This book will aim to explain some of the complexities of project management and managerial relationships with stakeholders by discussing the practice of stakeholder engagement, dialog, measurement and management and the consequences of this practice for reporting and productivity, and performance within project management.
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Aims to explain some of the complexities of project management and managerial relationships with stakeholders by discussing the practice of stakeholder engagement, dialog, measurement and management and the consequences of this practice for reporting and productivity, and performance within project management.
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Chapter 1 Stakeholders and the Context of Software Project Management; Chapter 2 Stakeholders within the Project Environment; Chapter 3 Capability and Stakeholder Management; Chapter 4 Instruments of Stakeholder Analysis; Chapter 5 Building and Assessing Collaborative Stakeholder Relationships; Chapter 6 A Framework for Analysing and Evaluating Stakeholder's Performance; Chapter 7 Selected Essays in Stakeholder Management;
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* Covers new concerns and emerging concepts in stakeholder management *Written from a practioner's perspective * Includes relevent case studies and readings

Product details

ISBN
9780750664554
Published
2004-10-20
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight
360 gr
Height
254 mm
Width
178 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
196

Author

Biographical note

John McManus is a practising manager, speaker, teacher and consultant and author in the fields of strategy, project management, software development, business reengineering, total quality management, and change management. A senior manager, John has 15 years front-line software, project, and general management experience. He has managed the development of a variety of software projects, utilizing Rapid Application Development, Structured Software Analysis Design Method, PRINCE and other software led project methodologies. He has managed large project teams and is responsible for providing independent assessments on numerous software projects. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a professional member of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Software Engineer and holds degrees from Manchester and London Universities.