“Delivering a successful initiative” is the goal, but how do you actually accomplish that when you are working on a multi-faceted project, with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders? In this session, May Lynn Lee, the program manager for Cybera (the National Research and Education Network [NREN] partner for Alberta), will review her experience and describe how proper governance, structure, and management of collaboration initiatives can produce tangible outcomes. And she will provide clear guidelines on how to effectively approach a new project, with multiple stakeholders, and build a) timelines, b) goals, and c) measurable outcomes.