CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

Task: Plan Stakeholder Engagement

According to the BABOK® v3 Guide, the purpose of Plan Stakeholder Engagement is as follows:

"to plan an approach for establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with the stakeholders.”

Here is a football analogy: a good way to think about this task is to consider the stakeholders as members of a football team. Every team member has a different role to play, directly or indirectly, but ultimately, everyone has the same goal. Some play positions that are only required for part of the game and other team members stay for the whole duration of the game. There are stakeholders who don’t actively play in the game but they contribute by bringing water to the players or by putting the score on the ...