Agile PM Online Roundtable: Managing Up

Our stakeholders, sponsors, executives, and senior leaders who we rely on to make our work successful can often seem very distant, like they live in a completely different universe. It can be difficult to find a common vocabulary and a common set of concerns that can bring us together in dialog and shared purpose. "Managing Up" is something that many of us must do to support our teams, but it requires a delicate balance of communication, alignment, and power dynamics to achieve a win-win situation.

In our June Agile PM Roundtable, we'll convene a Lean Coffee session in which our participants will explore questions like:

• How can we influence when stakeholders aren’t engaged?
• What can we do when stakeholders are ambivalent about Agile?
• How does Managing Up differ when you’re a consultant external from the organization? Is it easier? Difficult?

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AgilePDX is providing a forum for Agile Project Managers, Agile Facilitators, and Scrum Masters to gather online once a month and discuss all things project, program, and portfolio related. Please join us for a Lean Coffee style event facilitated by experienced Agile PM's and instructors in the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner prep program.

You'll be dialing in from your desktop with your favorite early morning brew. Please join with your camera on. The Zoom URL will be provided to confirmed attendees. Feel free to post questions to this meetup prior to the event.

We welcome divergent opinions and experience reports. Bring your challenges for groups feedback and support. Plan to join 15 minutes early for coffee clatch chat and networking or stay 15 minutes for the same networking experience.