You're wrong. It's about ME.

December 15, 2009

Posted in Keynotes

You’re wrong. It’s about ME. from Papercut Project Monitoring on Vimeo.

Why aren’t client objectives enough? Papercut Project Monitoring looks up the noses of stakeholder organizations and tries to fathom what’s important.

If someone’s objectives aren’t spelled out at the beginning of a project, sooner or later a senior stakeholder in that organization is going to notice and scream about what they’re not getting. That senior guy is going to put pressure on the project team to deliver, who will then try to wrestle project objectives away from the other teams.

Tags:choose your own path, communication, consequence, fear, goal, managing up, objective, stakeholder, video

About Geoff Crane

I’m a professor of project management at the college where I work. My students continually amaze me with their insights, passion and all-around awesomeness. I figure they deserve access to more answers than I can give them by myself. This site is for them.