SSS #010: Stakeholders and strategy with Louise Worsley
Channel: Pragmatic PMO
Date: 2019-06-03

In this interview, Louise Worsley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/picubed/) tells us of her experience with powerful negative stakeholders, and advises us on how to use them to help improve the quality of both risk management and the solution. She also reminds us to make sure that what you're doing remains aligned with the business case.

This interview is also available (for a limited time) as an audio-only podcast at http://bit.ly/PragmaticPMOCast - or wherever you get your podcasts from. 

00:00 - Intro
01:20 - How Louise got into project management
02:10 - Louise's Scary Scar (naysayer stakeholders)
04:07 - Dealing with powerful dissenting voices
05:44 - What Louise learned
07:32 - Louise's secrets for success
09:58 - Ken's wrap-up

This video is part of a series, in which Ken BurrelI of Pragmatic PMO Ltd asks Real Project Managers to share in around ten minutes the lessons they have learned from managing projects, so that the whole project management community can learn from their experiences. 

You can find the entire series at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4n2Nues8Os&list=PL1ZmB1dbMaa1uauuDxHoxxMDyVV_oQIPs 

Sharing short, sharp, project lessons interviews like this is just one of the pragmatic pointers recommended in Ken's book “Learning lessons from Projects: How it works, why it goes wrong, and how it you can do it better”, available from http://bit.ly/KensLLBook 

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