As a project manager, you must prioritize working with people and leading them to success. The most common way is to perform stakeholder management activities. Stakeholder analysis is a critical part of these activities. But if you have never done it, you may find the term rather … [Read more...]
Articles on Stakeholder Management from the Real World
Latest Articles on Project Stakeholder Management at Project Management Basics. To become proficient in managing stakeholder engagement, check out my guide called "What is Stakeholder Management".
Stakeholder Register Examples (small and big projects)
In project management, one key pillar of success is managing your stakeholders well. Stakeholders are people or parties that may have an interest in your project. Manage them well, and they drive your project to success. Mess up, and things may get harder for you. A stakeholder register helps … [Read more...]
How to identify stakeholders? (+Identification Cheatsheet)
Stakeholder management is one of the key pillars of project management. With stakeholder management, your main goal is to identify and engage with the potential parties your project may affect. However, how do you identify stakeholders? Identifying stakeholders can be seen as an inside-out … [Read more...]
What Is Stakeholder Management: Templates, Processes, Tools
When it comes to project management, you cannot run away from stakeholder management. Taking care of your project stakeholders can greatly increase the odds of success for your projects. But what is stakeholder management anyway? Stakeholder management is a set of processes and tools where you … [Read more...]
How to Manage Stakeholder Engagement: 15 Practical Strategies
Peter is a valuable project stakeholder. We need him more than he needs us. So, no matter what you do Peter puts your request to the bottom of his priority list. He is not engaged. How about this one? Dory is a project customer. She wants to get the results. Therefore, she puts … [Read more...]
Project Stakeholder Management: Identification, Analysis, Register
Project Stakeholder Management is the hardest part of project management. Why? Stakeholders are human beings. Let's face it: They can be jerks, they can be demanding, some will wait until the last moment to add up problems. Part of them will be supportive, most will be … [Read more...]
26 Arguments to Prove the Benefits of Project Management
It is painful to explain obvious benefits of project management. Making project more efficient sounds too generic. Moreover, can you prove that? And the most powerful argument from the opposite side: ”It has been working this way for years. Why would we need to change anything?” I get it. … [Read more...]
A Sad Story About Change Management on Organizational Level
It was another valuable article on change management. In an hour, Corwin had planned a meeting with the director of the department and other superiors. He feels excited. He wants to share his ideas on how to improve the project management approach. From time to time Corwin dreamed that his … [Read more...]
How to Manage Stakeholder Engagement in a Strategic Way
Good, Bad, and Ugly Stakeholders and How to Deal With Them
In theory, stakeholder management looks like an easy and logical process. It is not all unicorns in real life though! Books and articles will hardly tell you that it is ugly and quite often involves manipulation, misleading, sabotage, and framing. Think about it for a moment. There … [Read more...]
