Recruit a project champion

I?m a project manager and in my projects i use PrjChampions giving them another name. I use them to assure resources, and more important, as influence factors in change management. You know, project usually find homeostatic forces which have to be dealed with. There you have to use old-fashion influence. Your PrjChampion may come handy.

We are currently working on a project where there is no visible champion and because of this we have had problems getting decisions made and information from the employees of the organisation. Although the project will be delivered on time we have spend considerable amounts of time on the

From this experience, I have learned that it is very essential to identify a champion as early on in the project as possible and that the champion should have enough influence within the organisation to help you with some of the ‘road blocks’ that will inevitably occur.

One of the main things that program management offices or project portfolio management is trying to prevent. If there is no project champion or project sponsor, stop the project and put the resources to work doing something that organization thinks is critical. Even if the project is something "that has to be done", there needs to be an executive sponsor or the project is very unlikely to be successful regardless of the efforts of the project team.