How to build transparent relationships with stakeholders?

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What is the difference between internal and external stakeholders?

Discover how to distinguish internal and external stakeholders with examples from various industries.

Who are the most important stakeholders?

Find out how to identify the most important stakeholders and construct a matrix of the influence for your business growth and success.

How to build relationships with stakeholders?

Discover the strategies to analyze, prioritize, and cultivate mutually beneficial relationships in a complex global landscape.

Which engagement model to choose?

Benefit from 12 engagement models that analyze the degree of quality for each type of stakeholder and help foster trust and loyalty.

How to communicate with stakeholders?

Read about the 3 pillars of effective communication and get practical insight from our team.

How to act in times of crisis?

Learn practical tips on how to engage with stakeholders in crisis and where to direct your attention to keep the business afloat.

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Internal and external stakeholders in IT

Internal and External Stakeholders Types, Differences, and Roles

World politics and economics have bound most countries together and made companies more dependent on each other than ever before. Resource and component suppliers, manufacturers, distributors of goods and labor, as well as sales markets, are spread across the planet. You could say that almost no full-service companies are left that don't depend on other companies.

Distributed Leadership as a Consensus in Decision-Making

The new wave in the IT sphere is a new form of shared leadership—distributed leadership. It is no longer enough to have 30-year strategic plans or even 5- or 10-year roadmaps to guide a company into the future. Strategic thinking and working in flexible teams allow companies to respond to changing technology and external risks such as geopolitical conflict, pandemics, and climate change.Increasingly, companies are moving away from command-and-control leadership in favor of distributed management, which emphasizes giving people autonomy and using noncoercive methods to ensure alignment. Within our company, we also try to apply distributed leadership in practice. In this article, we will look at what distributed leadership is and share the experience of our company and others.

Bullet-Issues: Tasks That Kill

Bullet issues… Each IT project has tasks of this type. They are small, simple, but once you forget about them, something gets killed suddenly.Many teams underestimate test bullet issues let's test it again. From a developer’s perspective, such a task looks too simple to care about it. So the developer prefers to put it aside and focus on the bigger tasks that look more important.Let’s have a look at a real-world example:

How to Ruin a Relationship with the Client

We continue to share our experience in project management. In the previous article, we shared advice on how to lead your project to fail, today we will talk about how to ruin a relationship with a customer.

Software Features Acceptance by Client

Feature acceptance by the client is one of the important phases in the project’s life cycle, which ultimately determines the product’s functionality delivered to the end-users. The whole point of this step is to successfully sign off the feature with the client and make the release, but to achieve it you have to make sure that all the objectives are met. Sometimes not everything goes so smoothly. It often happens when just before the deadline you discover that some functions are acting up or stop working at all. As a result, you get stressed teams and unsatisfied clients. Let’s work out why these problems occur and the ways you can ensure stressful-free feature completion.

Four tips to improve your communication skills in IT projects.

How to Communicate with Clients to Build Successful Software

The work of tech teams is done for the people who are paying them, i.e. clients. Even if you are working on an internal product, everything has its customer and buyer.There is a saying “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” However, there is always a limit, and every request must be considered wisely. Blindly following the demands of inexperienced tech stakeholders isn’t a good strategy. It might result in a ludicrous final product, which is conflicting with the quality and professional skills your company offers. It is important to build a long-term relationship with a customer, who has the possibility and willingness to pay regularly and steadily.