Chapter 4

Conduct a Stakeholder Analysis

In This Chapter:

  • Identify Project Stakeholders

  • Identify Each Stakeholder’s Role

  • Assign Project Deliverables

  • Identify Stakeholder Project Interest

  • Identify Stakeholder Power and Influence

  • Revisit Stakeholder Analysis

  • Produce a User Analysis

Stakeholders are persons and organizations such as customers, sponsors, direct and indirect users, providers, advisors, the performing organization, and the public that are actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project. A stakeholder may also be a person or organization that exerts influence over the project and its deliverables.1 Project stakeholders are potentially sources ...

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