What best practices have your IT department found for strategic business stakeholder engagement? How do other departments like to hear from IT (ex. QBRs, monthly reports, collaboration channels, etc)? What do other departments like to hear about from IT in order to facilitate transparent collaboration around strategic portfolio management?
Director of IT in Software, 201 - 500 employees
From my experience the best way are regular communication using communications channels and periodic reports (we prepare them quarterly). In reports we expose major activities, achievements, eventual incidents/longer outages and status of ongoing projects in IT. Regarding strategic portfolio we analyze business and strategic priorities of company and then prepare potential projects (we did this once per year during company planning process for next year). Approval of selected projects is at the end done by management board and then necessary resources for this projects become part of IT budget and necessary resources for next year.CTO in Banking, 51 - 200 employees
You asked the right question, I think. This is really about “engagement”. In my experience, we create the greatest value - and have the most fun - when we create deep partnerships built upon shared goals. Those partnerships are best anchored in an intentional scheme of collaboration that’s built into the operating model. Three things must be present:1) Teams that have the right commitment and active participation from those stakeholders
2) Agreed upon decision-making frameworks, likely including something like OKRs that create clarity in what matters and how we think we can achieve it.
3) A way of measuring performance that can serve as a way of clarifying progress and fostering collaboration on the mutual interests.
Some organizations fall for the trap of believing we can “communicate” our way into satisfied stakeholders. I really think that satisfaction and excellence comes from partnership and “engagement”
Director of Engineering in Services (non-Government), 2 - 10 employees
An ongoing dialogue, with or without a Technology Business Partner has been most effective in my experience.Chief Information Technology Officer in IT Services, 201 - 500 employees
Hello, we hold regular meetings to monitor projects, we have also set up collaboration channels via team and finally we have dashboards and performance indicators. We also encourage feedback and continuous improvement supported by training and detailed documentation of our projects all contribute to improving our engagement practices.Content you might like
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CTO in Software, 201 - 500 employees
Without a doubt - Technical Debt! It's a ball and chain that creates an ever increasing drag on any organization, stifles innovation, and prevents transformation.Chief Information Security Officer in Software, 5,001 - 10,000 employees
I am not sure there is a one-size-fits-all answer to the number and size of projects a project manager should oversee simultaneously. It is essential to evaluate the specific circumstances and factors involved in each situation. ...read moreCommunity User in Software, 11 - 50 employees
organized a virtual escape room via https://www.puzzlebreak.us/ - even though his team lost it was a fun subtitue for just a "virtual happy hour"
I especially like roadshows and agile increment planning as methods, participating in their quarterly and other review, peer off sites, including them on key hires, etc.
It made me chuckle as a PM I used to work with had a “tell folks 7 times 7 ways” communications plan, and it still holds true for engagement.