stakeholder management – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders

By Scott J. Pearson | November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

Product management centers itself on coordinating several diverse, complex teams towards producing one coherent business product. It’s a fairly new role in organizations, and it’s especially popular in the IT sector. Software involves a disparate set of competencies, like writing code, graphical design, software design, marketing, customer relations, and subject matter expertise. A good product manager can act as a representative of a product’s “soul” to give voice to its essential human benefit. Alignment plays…

Practical Project Stakeholder Management: Methods, Tools & Templates for Comprehensive Stakeholder Management

By Scott J. Pearson | November 2, 2024November 2, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

There aren’t a ton of books available on coaching how to manage stakeholders while managing a project towards success. This independently published book attempts to fill that gap by providing a series of methods and tools to those new to the practice. First the strengths: The book indeed delivers as advertised by including most common practices for managing stakeholders. It explains them well and provides examples of documentation. It reads like an internal training document…