3. Project Stakeholders
• The customer, the supliers, the employer, the
user, and maybe others
• They determine the outcome and effort of
your work
• Mediation of their demands is the bridge
between victory and defeat, success and
failure, hope and dispair
4. Project Intake and Software
Requirements Determination
• Goals and requirements set by Stakeholders
can de ambigously formulated
• It becomes overwhelming when the initiators
are the financers (bussiness experience but no
technical experience)
• Clarify. Mediate. Plan. and then Commit.
5. Requirements Validation
• The issue is Expectations
– make sure you and the stakeholders are in the
same mindset (you both evaluate key aspects and
neglijable ones, the same way)
– communication and feedback should border on
frustration
6. Project Progress
• The Easy Part
• Milestones
• Tasks
• Deadlines
• Budget
• The Hard Part
• Change Requests
7. Risk Management
• "Project risk management focuses the project
manager's attention on those portions of the
project most likely to cause trouble and to
compromise participants' win conditions."
[Boehm,1989 ]
8. The Big Picture
• « Every zoo tries to get a very nice and balanced
variety of animals to present to its visitors. Species
are grouped together, in a coherent way, and if you
follow the tour that's laid out for you, you flow
through nature in a natural way. But there is always
this small pavilion at the back of the wall, in the
shadows of the trees, where they keep the ugly and
weird animals. They must be in the zoo for
completeness, but they never fit anywhere in the
normal tour. If you insert them anywhere, they
interrupt the flow.»
