Your latest project involves 25 functional and department managers to coordinate with who will be providing resources to your project. Each manager has very specialized interests and doesnt want to come to every project meeting. How do you deal with this large, opinionated stakeholder team?

1. Pick three managers who usually agree with you and set them up them up as stakeholder representatives to attend team meetings.
2. Find a way to ask only the department managers, who have a primary interest in a feature or function, to come to meetings regarding that item.
3. Every department manager should be at every meeting. That is what they are paid to do.
4. Present them with a finished project as a surprise. They will be pleased you didnt waste their time by involving them.