Steering Without a Rudder: 6 Proven Tactics for Thriving When Project Sponsorship Is Absent, Weak, or in Flux

Are you a project manager trying to overcome inconsistent or weak sponsorship to deliver your project? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• Governance is like an attorney: When someone says you don't need it, that's when you most need it

• Get ahead of waning sponsorship by keeping the value of the project in constant focus

• Inconsistent sponsorship is a risk to project success, and should be managed like any other risk

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

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5 Tips for Dealing with Unrealistic Project Timelines

Are you a project manager that's been handed a project with unrealistic timeline expectations? If so, this week's episode of Better Projects Today is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• Trust and transparency are foundational to getting a project back on track

• If asking for more resources, do it in a way that makes it very easy for your Sponsor to say "yes"

• When faced with someone unreasonable, approach them with a "coalition of the reasonable"

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

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4 Tips for Project Roadmaps That Actually Matter

Are you a project leader looking to improve how you communicate project schedules with your team? If so, this episode is for you.

Key take-aways from this episode include:

• A roadmap and Gannt schedule are two very different tools and should be treated as such

• Ensure your roadmap's structure aligns with the project's vision/objective to intrinsically "tell the story" of how your project will flow

• A well-designed roadmap is a powerful tool for facilitating discussions with shared vernacular and visibility to impacts of change

Better Projects Today is the bite-sized project management podcast helping you to bridge theory and practice in your own work to create better teams, better results, and better projects today. I'm Tyler Norman, and I bring 15 years of experience as a global program leader and serial mentor to project professionals.

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