Integration between Project Management and Business Relationship Management

     As an IT professional who has extensive experience in both project management and business relationship management, I know there are challenges in both disciplines that inhibit the ability of practitioners (the PM's and BRM's) from hitting the ground running when initiating a new project or building relationships with new executives.  With this in mind, I have recently been contemplating these challenges and have begun documenting examples of how leveraging the elements of one of the disciplines can greatly benefit the other.  These ideas go beyond the traditional organizational model where there is sort of a sibling relationship between the two disciplines, with each having distinct responsibilities, or another model where BRM's take strategic ideas through the ideation stage, hand them off to PM's for Project Initiation through Closure, then take them back for Value Realization.

     I will continue fleshing out these ideas and share my outcomes in future blogs.  Please subscribe to this blog above or continue to follow my LinkedIn updates.  And, I would love to see what you think, so feel free to comment below.  Thanks.

David