How do you balance transformation activities and BAU when you have a few key components and people who are critical to both? 

Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) is the practice of outsourcing programme and project management functions fully or partially to a specialised service provider. Instead of hiring and maintaining an in-house project management team, organisations can rely on external experts to handle their programme and project management needs. 

As a Programme or Project Manager, you will often find yourself in a position where you need to manage senior stakeholders. This can be a challenging task, but with the right approach, you can successfully navigate these relationships and achieve your goals. Here are a few tips for managing senior stakeholders…

If you’re unable to prioritise based on customer needs, how do you expect to deliver anything of value to them? 

A colleague and I were discussing this question the other day as we attempted to re-design our website. We were reviewing agile related research which pointed to this problem. 

 Organisations expect their teams to create value for them and their customers, but the lack of clear direction and prioritisation to those teams often results in disappointing outcomes. So, what can we do about it...? 

Nobody wants to be the person to tell a senior stakeholder the thing they are championing may not be what they envisage. 

Have you ever been told on a particularly long and tough delivery that “it’ll be ok, we just need to get it over the line”? The problem is that we may have lost sight of what IT was or WHERE the line was. 

It’s All About The ‘Why’

The ‘Test & Learn’ Approach