Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success Reprint Edition

This book has the most comprehensive information on the sponsor - Project manager relationship than any other book I’ve ever had. It’s worth the price just to get the templates that are in the back of the book. This is a must read for every project manager out there. There’s a lot written right now about stakeholder engagement but your most important stakeholder is the sponsor. And that subject is given short shrift in most project management books.

Good book specially useful in a balanced matrix organization. Several gray zones as e.g. staffing the project are reviewed.

I have read the second edition of this magnificent book, although I new already about its first edition in 2006.Sponsorship is something basic to deliver good projects. All Project Managers know that it is very difficult (almost imposible) to achieve success in a project without the support of its sponsors at high level, but there is a way to perform with them and this book clearly helps to improve in that sense. A necessary base to work in every organization is that its upper managers understand and support the project and its progress.This edition improves the first one including many new examples, tools and worksheets about how to implement sponsors support.I highly recommend reading and working with this book as a fundamental help to every project manager who wants to improve its project results.

This s a book quite interesting not only for project managers also for Executives, to provide them a clear view of the importance of a good sponsorship for the success of a project.As project manager, during book reading, I have identified situations that I had in my daily job and I have learnt different ways to handle them, and on top I have learnt about the importance to have a good sponsorship to avoid failing in a project.I like it because it can be read from both sides, as project manager and as sponsor, giving good ideas to both.

As a student of Project Management I highly recommend adding this book to your collection. By reading this book I learnt that a project sponsor is a much needed guide who promotes healthy environment for a project to be successfully completed. The book has ten chapters, each seen as a step towards excellence. Each step has different vantage over how a project work needs good sponsor’s support and guidance. Case studies, surveys, mind maps and tools and techniques for each phase of “achieving management commitment for project success”. I also would use all the surveys included in the book such as risk assessment survey, feedback action plan and feedback questionnaire.

Project Sponsorship explores in depth the sponsorship role and responsibilities. I wish some of my former bosses would read it. If every sponsor would know and feel comfortable with their organizational and management cultures with a view into their projects and priorities many hardships endured on projects would be avoided.The assessments contained to evaluate culture in regards to sponsorship were extremely valuable. They identified trouble areas of my current project accurately as lack of commitment, cultural mismatch and transition planning. The sponsor was categorized as a risk in understanding the need and not effectively understanding the organizational change necessary to support the project.Overall for me the book's message to develop sponsors that can be responsible for another person, group and/or project without taking responsibility for the person's personal objectives was profoundly communicated. An example of some of the excellent advice within this book is using Project Portfolio Management focus in order to not over complicate engineers with process and procedures. After reading this book it was clear that the sponsor does play a major role in optimizing outcome.

I read this book from the perspective of a project manager who has experienced projects both with and without committed project sponsorship. If you've managed a project without proper sponsorship, you may find the pages in this book echoing your painful experience. I could identify with it all, and for that reason I can easily endorse reading this book.Englund and Bucero have been there, that's easy to see. The books hammers home how critical project sponsorship is and it offers the tools and guidance to do it. I have sometimes felt my company, much like our clients, felt that initiating a project was like pulling up to a drive-up window and placing an order. It was just that simple, give the order, then drive around to collect the result with nothing occurring in between. This book focuses on just what needs to happen in supporting a project from beginning through the end, including the project review. Following the advice in this book could help in developing your company culture, bringing together the commitments of all - the sponsor, the project team--and your customer's team too.The authors truly reveal their experience in emphasizing the value of principled approaches over quick fixes and other misguided pressures that will push a project off target. That's a tough thing to confront, I've found. Getting your company some training in project sponsorship might go a long way in strengthening your company's performance. Read the book. See what you think. (If you're the PM reading the book, pass it along to the project sponsor when you're done.)

Excellent book on project sponsorship from a seasoned project management professional and great writer