Project Management Simplified

Appendix M: Stakeholder Matrix

George and the project team generate a list of stakeholders from project documents and in consultation with other stakeholders.

In the Community Gardens project, the stakeholders include:

• The project team, including the people who tend the gardens.
• Sponsors who fund the project (either money or resources). The town manager is a sponsor, in that the town provides resources for pre- and post-season garden preparation.
• Customers who consume the product of the project. In the Community Gardens, the soup kitchen, the farmers market, and the customers of the farmers market are all customers.
• The town newspaper might also be a stakeholder, in that it publicizes (either positively or negatively) the Community Gardens. ...