This document discusses the role of the Project Management Office (PMO) in promoting stakeholder engagement. It argues that the PMO should adopt three key roles: 1) Promote a stakeholder mindset, 2) Adapt processes to match stakeholder and project types, and 3) Act as a broker and facilitator of stakeholder engagement. As a broker, the PMO can help with alignment, translation, negotiation and coordination between stakeholders. As a facilitator, the PMO can provide governance, lessons learned practices, coaching and tools to support engagement. The document emphasizes that for stakeholders to truly matter, their engagement must affect how projects are conducted in an organization.
4. Co-ordination & control
Management
Participation & responsiveness
Engagement
Stakeholder engagement
• A willingness to listen
• Able to discuss issues of
mutual interest
• Prepared to consider
changes in light of the
engagement
5. “The involved and
the affected...”
Ulrich 1983
PMBoK 5 2013
Who is a
stakeholder?
“An individual, group or
organization who may affect,
be affected by,
or perceive itself to be affected by
a decision, activity or outcome of
the project”
11. Adapt & enable people
and processes to match
stakeholder & project
types
12. What should the PMO do
…and not do…
to promote project
stakeholder
engagement?
13. The PMO as broker
Alignment
Translation
Negotiation
Coordination
Adapted from: Julian, J., 2008.
The business
Project board
The PMO as facilitator
Governance
Lessons-learned practices
Coaching and training
Tools & methods
PMO
ProjectsProjects
14. • Who’s who in the zoo
• Share stakeholder stories
• Advise / coach
stakeholder engagement
• Monitor …but not by
templates
Source: bit.ly/2lRm1l9
Some views from the south
15. If stakeholders matter
– then their
engagement must
affect the conduct of
projects in your
organisation
1 Promote a stakeholder mindset
2 Adapt & enable people and
processes to match stakeholder
& project types
3 Broker & facilitate
Does it?
17. Stories borrowed from…
• Reggie Springleer, Manager Industry Transition, City of Cape Town
And many, many others…
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References
Notes de l'éditeur
My MSc student:
Lessons learned
Inspired SSS
Got to talk with lots of people – didn’t matter what the project – even technical problems were often solved or not solved by the qualioty of the SE
Hence my focus over the last 2 years has been on Stakeholder Engagement
Working with PMOs – what role should the PMO take
Today – cover
How to do we as PMOs promote a stakeholder mindset – what should and shouldn’t the PMO to make SM successful on our projects.
A Project that sits within the category of SH-led
Thanks to Reggie for so patien
The Integrated Rapid Transport projects, instigated both as part f FIFA build but also as part or general city transport improvement is an example of a stakeholder-led project with a pretty tough remit.
How to we go from this to this and make sure that this occurs.
Eight taxi association, 950 taxi drivers, two bus companies, two hundred bus drivers
Is this going to be easy? No – this is an industry that has consistently resisted any form of regulation and has a deep mistrust in provincial government.
We are talking about a SH groups which have for years fought against regulation – sometimes violently.
CT has made some progress – we do have an IRT running if not profitably but I guess we there are still some battles to be fought.
The City of CT was relatively successful – in taking in persuading – Persuasion as an engagement strategy is necessary when the SHs (agenda based) basically don’t want to adopt your position – in gact hey may be aggressively againts it.
How did the IRT programme manage this? A talk in its own right – but one thing that really struck me was the IRT project team too real effort and time to know the SHs.
Fundamental assumption often made in projects that we know our SHs – but I guarantee we don’t – in most stakeholder neutral and some stakeholder sensitive where mainly role-based SHs but in more complex SH-senstive & Sh-led projects this is just not enough.
Lets have a look at a couple of models to
tly talking in to me. Engaged me so much I felt I had to go out and try.
A Project that sits within the category of SH-led
Thanks to Reggie for so patien
The Integrated Rapid Transport projects, instigated both as part f FIFA build but also as part or general city transport improvement is an example of a stakeholder-led project with a pretty tough remit.
How to we go from this to this and make sure that this occurs.
Eight taxi association, 950 taxi drivers, two bus companies, two hundred bus drivers
Is this going to be easy? No – this is an industry that has consistently resisted any form of regulation and has a deep mistrust in provincial government.
We are talking about a SH groups which have for years fought against regulation – sometimes violently.
CT has made some progress – we do have an IRT running if not profitably but I guess we there are still some battles to be fought.
The City of CT was relatively successful – in taking in persuading – Persuasion as an engagement strategy is necessary when the SHs (agenda based) basically don’t want to adopt your position – in gact hey may be aggressively againts it.
How did the IRT programme manage this? A talk in its own right – but one thing that really struck me was the IRT project team too real effort and time to know the SHs.
Fundamental assumption often made in projects that we know our SHs – but I guarantee we don’t – in most stakeholder neutral and some stakeholder sensitive where mainly role-based SHs but in more complex SH-senstive & Sh-led projects this is just not enough.
Lets have a look at a couple of models to
tly talking in to me. Engaged me so much I felt I had to go out and try.
Do you recognise these as your functions?
What else?
Who else?
What is done by someone else?