Dear PM Advisor,
I attended your class
in New Jersey and have a follow-up question. As a teacher we are often subject
to decisions made by higher-level administration. They decide which projects are run and these projects often
result in additional or even nonsensical work for us lowly teachers.
What is your advice
for us?
Peeved in Pequannock
Dear Peeved,
These are projects for which you are not a team member I
assume. But since you are affected by the outcome of these projects, you are,
by definition, a stakeholder. You and the other 100,000 teachers affected by
some of these high level projects. It’s
almost as if you share a common core.
Stakeholders should always be considered during proper
project management. Those running the project should place you on a
Power/Interest grid and deal with you appropriately. Your level of Interest
should be rated as extremely high but your Power, unfortunately, would be rated
as low. What can you really do about these demands pushed down from above?
Your union, however, should also be on this grid and their Power
is high. If you and your fellow teachers ensure that their Interest level on
new projects is high also, new projects will be forced to deal with them.
I suggest you ask your union to require that a
representative teacher be involved at the earliest stages of any new project.
This way a high Power, high Interest stakeholder can be fully informed about
what is going on and can gather comments from teachers and ensure that their interests
are being met on future projects.
Good luck,
PM Advisor
Send your questions to Bruce@RoundTablePM.com
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