PM-ks-C13-Stakeholder-essays
49. What is a stakeholder register and what information must be included in it?
ANSWER: A simple way to document basic information on project stakeholders is by creating a stakeholder register. This document can take various forms and include the following information: • Identification information: The stakeholders' names, positions, locations, roles in the project, and contact information. • Assessment information: The stakeholders? ' major requirements and expectations, potential influences, and phases of the project in which stakeholders have the most interest. • Stakeholder classification: Is the stakeholder internal or external to the organization? Is the stakeholder a supporter of the project or resistant to it?
48. Identify and describe the processes involved in project stakeholder management.
ANSWER: The four processes in project stakeholder management include the following: Identifying stakeholders involves identifying everyone involved in the project or affected by it, and determining the best ways to manage relationships with them. The main output of this process is a stakeholder register. Planning stakeholder management involves determining strategies to effectively engage stakeholders in project decisions and activities based on their needs, interests, and potential impact. Outputs of this process are a stakeholder engagement plan. Managing stakeholder engagement involves communicating and working with project stakeholders to satisfy their needs and expectations, resolving issues, and fostering engagement in project decisions and activities. The outputs of this process are change requests, project management plan updates, and project documents updates. Monitoring stakeholder engagement involves monitoring stakeholder relationships and adjusting plans and strategies for engaging stakeholders as needed. Outputs of this process are work performance information, change requests, project management plan updates, and project documents updates.
50. What must be the contents of the stakeholder management plan?
ANSWER: • Current and desired engagement levels: If these levels are not the same, the project team should develop a strategy to align engagement levels. • Interrelationships between stakeholders: There are many interrelationships between project activities and stakeholders. The project manager must be in tune with the politics of the organization. • Communication requirements: The communications management plan should specify stakeholder requirements, and the stakeholder register can expand on unique requests from specific people. • Potential management strategies for each stakeholder: This critical section can contain very sensitive information. • Methods for updating the stakeholder management plan: All plans need some process for handling changes and updates. Flexibility would be important as stakeholders change on the project.
