007-How to respond to "stupid" executive asks

Project Management Happy Hour · Aug 22, 2017 · 1m

This week we talk about a tough subject – how to handle an outside senior stakeholder who wants to exert influence on your project. This can be very tough when that influence is contrary to decisions already agreed in the project by senior stakeholders, or if that influence is uninformed. In this episode, Kate outlines a formula that she uses to effectively manage such requests. Following that 5 step formula results in the following response statement: Knowing that we wanted to achieve [project success definition] within [success criteria], we looked at [new random request from the…