Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Chapter 3 Proejct Stakeholders

Anyone who participates in the project is a stakeholder. It would be customers, decision makers, vendors, and employees. There are different roles among stakeholders.
For example, project managers define, plan, control, and lead the project. Function management contributes company policy and resources. Project team contributes skills and effort to perform tasks. Sponsor contributes authority, guidance, and maintains project priority. Customers contribute product requirements and funding.

Tips for project manager

-Project manager should ask questions like: What is my authority? Who do I report to? Does this mean I’ll be relieved of other responsibilities? What are my expectations?

-Project manager should keep team members with minor roles informed.

-Ask the right questions about managers like: Which managers will make decisions? Who has veto power? Who is indirectly affected by these decisions?

-In order to determine who fills the role of customer a manager must be guided by two basic questions: Who is authorized to make decisions about the project? And Who will pay for this project?

The project manager of my capstone project is I. So, I define, plan, control, and lead this project. As for project team, there will be no other project team members. So, I will contribute skills and effort to perform tasks. Sponsor would be school advisor because he will guide and maintain project priority. Customer will be Korean school at DLI. Function management will be the department chair Korean school at DLI.

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