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Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success (Jossey-Bass Business & Management)

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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.)

This book explains well what project sponsorship is all about. It covers general project sponsorship concepts based on PMBoK, and also introduces sponsorship concepts for client-based projects.

I really like about the book that it is written for both the experienced project manager and the curious novice project manager. It is easy to comprehend without sounding trivial. Examples and illustrations help to understand the material. It is one of the rare project management books that you can pick up and read for fun after a long work day. Enjoy Reading!

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

Colleagues Englund and Bucero have opened the door to the hidden room of PM success, that of Sponsorship! Without a Sponsor, you don't have a project, and your keys to success are lost.
- Bob L. Storeygard, PMP
Project Manager for Traffic & Vehicle Systems Projects
3M Traffic Safety Systems Division

Project Sponsorship- Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success - is a timely and relevant book that offers project managers a look at case studies that show how successful projects are linked to executive support. A must read for all project managers and their respective Executives!
- Louis J. Mercken
Chairman of the Board of Threon Europe & former Chair of the Project Management Institute