5 Practical Insights on Dealing with Difficult Stakeholders

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[@Ccherish123]

Great video :) im on a marathon of watching your videos back to back for interview prep. Your videos are so different from the others' in asense that it doesnt feel like you are just making videos for the sake of it , but you are actaully providing useful advice from your previous practical experince. Please continue to do this . thanks ! On a lighter note , That last bit(truth from the trenches) sounded like a relationship advice to me that I badly need now :D

[@ITProjectManagers]

Glad you like them! Thank you for your kind feedback. Stakeholder management is all about relationships. You just have bit more sophisticated approach.

[@SasidharReddy-fs3xe]

Great video.. resonate to realities well 🙂

[@ITProjectManagers]

Glad you think so!:)

[@maurobrugnoli2526]

Great video thanks. My personal experience is that difficult stakeholders are mainly driven by different agenda than project's goals and possibly personal "conflicts of interest". In this case, the Engineer's PM should balance his decisions resolving the conflicts or finding resolutions avoiding to be drag in uncomfortable and unethical situations, focusing on the goals of the project. Hard job!.

[@ITProjectManagers]

Yes, you are totally correct. The biggest problems come from stakeholders that try to achieve their own goals without considering the project's objectives.

[@andriimostika1927]

Great advices. Thank you very much for your content

[@ITProjectManagers]

Glad you like them, Andrii!

[@edwardmarlowe7926]

I really appreciate what you said about staying in a toxic environment just long enough to get needed experience. I've been debating leaving an abusive employer for a long time but recently transitioned into PM work which is more aligned with future goals so I've been struggling with whether or not to leave.

[@ITProjectManagers]

Glad it was helpful, Edward. And it great that you worked this out.

[@angajs]

Hi Dmitriy, I am third year college doing student..firstly i love you channel and content ..amazing helped me out ...i hope maybe you can make video on SDLC and project management based PMBOK mapping and also details version sample project with SDLC level how they are done ..wil love from China

[@ITProjectManagers]

Hi Angaj, I have an article on SDLC. Maybe that’s what you are looking for. pmbasics101.com/software-development-life-cycle/ On the other hand, PMBOK mapping doesn’t work well with real-world SDLCs. It’s like different worlds. If you are subscribed to my newsletter, I share a lesson from my course there. It explains how the PMBOK mapping (read integration works). I think you’ll find it helpful as well.

[@weirdsunshine2827]

thank you!

[@ITProjectManagers]

You're welcome!

[@MrWiggiJ]

Hey Dmitry, wishing you well at this time.

[@ITProjectManagers]

Thanks, Carl.

[@TheRobowski]

Love the practical advice videos. The PMBOK is mostly useless in practice. It doesn't prepare you for the realities of managing projects. It just is a long winded introduction to basic concepts. Listen to this guy's videos and study practical guides and you'll be on your way.

[@ITProjectManagers]

Thank you for such a great feedback.

[@zacherievietzke4632]

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