Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Project champion

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The result was Delete Nakon 05:24, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Project champion

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Prod removed by author. Despite a respectable Google hitlist, I'm not sure this is anything more than a corporate buzzword. Nothing in the way of sources have been provided. JuJube (talk) 13:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete The article is unencyclopedic. No source. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 13:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Sources - Pinto, J. K., D. P. Slevin. The Project Champion: Key to Implementation Success. Project Management Journal 20(4):15-20 (1989)

The handbook of project-based management (1999) J. Turner

Sorry, i dont know the correct formatting to include them in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reue (talk • contribs) 13:26, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Only one source is not encouraging, especially since it suggests a conflict of interest. It doesn't alleviate concerns that this is a corporate buzzword (and thus a neologism which is generally not acceptable content). JuJube (talk) 13:30, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunatly the base research into Project Champions is very limited. Many of the related journals use this one as a reference as shown by a google search as well. Sorry guys but I dont know how better to explain it, this is a valid term, being taught as part of project management and used in many books and journals. The suggestion that it is a Neologism would have to mean that this is a word just used for another term, however i am unable to find any other word used to describe this particular term. Reue (talk) 13:34, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Delete, strongly:
  
  A Project Champion is a senior individual stakeholder whom has a personal interest in a project and convinces others that this project should take priority over others. Project Champions can be advantageous in that they can motivate the progression of a project, but also disadvantageous in that they may influence decision making.
  
  Yes, this is the sort of writing that makes me angry. Vague generalizations, abstract to the point of evasiveness, the remarkable thing about "insights" like this is that, given sufficient leisure and vocabulary, you could have thought it up all by yourself. But really, all you lack is the marketing skill needed to get your brand of complete bollocks noticed. As Gertrude Stein said, there's no "there" there: this is a neologism in search of something to be about. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:16, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

'My' brand? Sorry but i neither coined nor attempt to market the term. Simpey trying to help others researching the subject and discovering (as i did) that wiki did not contain an artical about this frequently used term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reue (talk • contribs) 16:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

• Keep - Common position in the corporate world, you'll find a similar description of the title in any management text written in the last decade. Needs cleanup and expansion, not deletion. Burzmali (talk) 20:00, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

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