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Revisiting Managing Stakeholders, how to Nurture and thrive the relationship.

Stakeholders can make or break projects, in order to ensure project success, effective stakeholder management is required. Identifying key stakeholders, dealing with difficult ones and creating a management plan can be overwhelming if you don't know where to start. Building positive relationships with stakeholders and proactively meeting their expectations can make the life of a project manager much, much easier.

What is needed for good capacity planning?

Capacity planning is an issue of supply and demand, which has the ability to derail a project . It is a process that balances the available hours of teams against what the project needs. Capacity in this case is the most work that can be done over a certain timeframe. It’s a bit of a juggling act that has to keep several balls in the air, such as the availability of the team, the money in the budget for those hours and what is demanded by the client, stakeholder or customer. Capacity and planning obviously go hand-in-glove. Planning is how one schedules the hours of the team members so that the work gets done in time. The first questions to address when planning for capacity within an organization is whether or not there is sufficient capacity, or the resources, to do the work. Regardless of the situation, there will be a lack of understanding unless there is a way to measure and track resources, such as a resource management tool . Only then can an educated decisio...

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