Project Sponsor Checklist

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Project Sponsor Checklist:

• State and document the importance and leading role that sponsors play in development of their projects:
  • Sponsor advocates the project (represents it at a senior management level);
  • Sponsor coaches as a mentor (he champions the project ideas);
  • Sponsor works as a catalyst (he identifies wrong behaviors);
  • Sponsor participates as a motivator (he takes care of the team morale);
  • Sponsor breaks through barriers (he unites people and helps to find compromise);
  • Sponsor secures the project boundaries (he supervises project scope and limits);
  • Sponsor plays a “ceremonial” role in celebration or rewarding of the team members;
• Assemble collective sponsorship for the project if necessary, or appoint a single sponsor;

Committee of sponsors can work at big project where they can share different functions.

• Study the collective sponsorship (committee of sponsors) that will be at the top of the project;

Make sure you personally know all persons there and their roles in project sponsorship.

• Anticipate contributions that sponsors will make into driving the projects towards its success;

Recognize that the sponsors have the potential to identify, promote, and complete the project.

• Design convenient and civilized leverages through which the sponsors can affect the project;

Sponsors should have enough of controls to leverage the decision-making at certain points, but they shouldn’t have power to intrude into already running activities of professionals.

• Let the project sponsors to be involved into conception of active and visible sponsorship:
  • Make sure they are ready to participate proactively and visibly throughout the project life;
  • Ascertain that all sponsors and project managers are ready to collaborate in a strong coalition between each other (all doubts or conflicts should be resolved and mitigated early);
  • Ask if they are ready to communicate effectively with the team members (they should clearly understand everyone’s role);
• Ensure the sponsors will stay engaged throughout the whole project life;

Sponsors, if they want to be effective, cannot stay in the background or disappear after signing concerned documents.

• Introduce all project leaders to sponsors and make sure they can build collaboration;
• Have a diagram to regulate communication between sponsors and key team members;
• Agree on means that will be used for contacts and establish a framework of regular meetings;
• Enable the sponsors to be among team members to advocate project ideology and mission;

Let them champion the reasons for the project and explain risks of non-completing.

• Maintain face-to-face and two-way communications between the sponsor and team members;
• Regulate relations between team members and sponsors to prevent mutation of these relations;

Don’t let the sponsors to duplicate work of project managers: sponsors should never intrude into practical work of the team members or try to additionally control and direct their actions.

• Ascertain the sponsors ...

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