Stakeholder stewardship

• It starts with identifying the stakeholders
• Teach all stakeholders about agile benefits [agile advocate]
• Some stakeholders cause problems, and the agile PM needs to use interpersonal skills to resolve issues + needs to have a process of escalating stakeholder issues
• People over processes: COCOMO: Constructive Cost Model → the people cost is much higher [11 times more than tools & processes = people factor score is 33]
• Concerns about agile can include
• Definition of Done/Shared Vision
• Agile Chartering
• Communicating with stakeholders
• Green zone & Red zone
• Stakeholder engagement methods
• Critical soft skills [most imp. stakeholder engagement methods]
• Development/Delivery team roles
• Building Agile Teams
• Team Spaces
• Tracking Team Performance [Burn & Velocity Charts] V IMP