Workbook
The Engagement Manager's Workbook
Delivering What You Promised to a Client Who Has Changed Their Mind Three Times
Scope is a hypothesis. This workbook manages what happens when it changes.
For the engagement manager or delivery lead responsible for client-facing projects where the scope, the sponsor, and the definition of success have all moved since kickoff.
The Name It First Experience
The client who approved the scope did not stay still. The sponsor who signed may not be making decisions now. The deliverables look different in month three than at kickoff. You are accountable for delivery in conditions the project plan never anticipated. This workbook examines your approach to scope and expectation management, builds frameworks for resetting commitments without resetting relationships, and produces Your Engagement Charter — the delivery philosophy you carry into every shifting engagement.
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Sample questions
- What does delivering what you promised to a client who has changed their mind three times actually ask of you?
- Where has managing client expectations and project reality at the same time been hardest?
- What does an engagement delivered well — for the client and for your team — look like?
Research basis
PMBOK and PMI standards for scope management context / Block Flawless Consulting on client relationship management / Voss Never Split the Difference applied to scope negotiation / Maister, Green & Galford The Trusted Advisor on client relationship quality / Schlossberg Transition Theory for managing expectation changes.
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