[370] in magellan
Apropos of our earlier discussion about sponsors...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Thu Jan 6 15:38:54 2000
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From: Tim McGovern <tjm@MIT.EDU>
A recent issue of the PM Network magazine from PMI had a Q&A with Bill
Duncan (formerly _the_ Duncan of Duncan/Nevison). In that piece, he quotes
this from the PMBOK:
_Customer_: the individual or organization who will _use_ the project product.
_Sponsor_: the individual or group within the performing organization who
provides the _financial_ resources, in cash or in kind, for the project.
Sometimes, there are the same. But he then goes on to state that he thinks
the whole issue about classifying customer, sponsors, etc. is overblown,
and suggests we focus more on identifying the _interests_ of all possible
_stakeholders_.
It's possible we don't use the terms at all like the PMBOK suggests...see
http://web/is/discovery/disc-overv.html#sponsor for more on local usage.
Anyone else have additional food for thought?
Tim
