Jeremy Curbey

13.1 Identify Stakeholders

Process Definition
Identifying stakeholders is the process of determining all individuals or organizations that will have varying degrees of influence that could impact project success. This process will document and measure information regarding stakeholder interests, involvement, inter-dependencies, influence, and potential impact on the project. The process consists of Inputs, Tools & Techniques, and Outputs as describe in Figure 13-2.

Figure 5. Project Management Body of Knowledge Figure 13-2. Reprinted from "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), 5th Edition"by Project Management Institute, 2013, p. 393. Copyright 2013 by Project Management Institute, Inc. Reprinted without permission.

Process Assessment
This process allows the project manager and team to be able to focus more or less attention on the various stakeholders depending on the amount of impact each stakeholder or group of stakeholders have over the project. This allows the project team to be more efficient with time management and resources when managing stakeholders. It is critical that proper analysis and identification of the stakeholders is preformed. This can be achieved by having the project team setup a workshop or brainstorming session with key project members involved. 

(Inputs) Procurement Documents

This is a discussion about the Project Managers role in procurement. As procurement documents are one of the inputs for identifying stakeholders, this discussion is relevant as it talks about the project managers responsibility to identify suppliers. Suppliers and any others identified in procurement contracts would need to be added to the list of managers and stakeholders. The example is a cross talk from PMGT 614 Planning, Directing, and Controlling Projects.

 

(Tools & Techniques) Stakeholder Analysis

Stakeholder analysis is the process of gathering relevant information of the stakeholders then quantifying the information to determine which stakeholders interests should be important to the project team. This example is a paper from PMGT 502 Effective Communications for Managing Projects, Stakeholder Management Series.

 

(Outputs) Stakeholder Register

This is an example of a Stakeholder Register in which displays the importance of understanding Stakeholder Identification. The stakeholder register contains detailed information relevant to the stakeholders that have been identified. Stakeholder registers can have information such as contact numbers or email, project role, potential influence, internal/external to the project, personality type; supporter/neutral/resistor. This is an example taken from a project completed in PGMT 502 Effective Communications for Managing Projects, that was written by Jeremy Curbey, Reese Darlington, and Amanda Evans.


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Reference: Project Management Institute (PMI). (2013). A guide to the project management body 
of knowledge (PMBOK guide). Newtown Square, Pa: Project Management Institute. 


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