Stakeholder management – Project Environment Analysis

Project Environment Analysis

The project environment analysis helps to get a good understanding of the stakeholders involved and their needs. It is a valuable tool to identify stakeholders and manage their expectations and clarify requirements of a project.
Usually the stakeholders can be divided into five general groups:

• Project Group
• Customer (int. or external)
• Internal Departments
• Supplier
• Others 

Project Environment Analysis

 This representation can be used to put a stakeholder register together and to prepare a stakeholder action plan. The bottom line is the stakeholder management cycle below, which leads to the identification of stakeholders and the development of a plan. It depends on the size of the project how much effort should be put into proactive stakeholder management.

Stakeholder Management Cycle

Stakeholder action plan

The plan identifies the actions that need to be taken to increase stakeholders' commitment and increases the likelihood of a successful project.

Stakeholder action plan (aka Stakeholder Management Plan)
Stakeholder	Current Contribution Commitment	Targeted Contribution Commitment	Relationship	Actions
Head of Finance	Desirable Neutral	Desirable Supportive	Barney	Weekly meeting one on one Invite to Status-Report meeting

Post of the day - The Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management

I read an interesting article (link is below) which has a few thoughts about project management mistakes.
I specially like point 2 about "saying no". "Instead of managing expectations through saying “no,” think about using the “yes, and…” principle." As project manager one often has to sell a product or service to a costumer who can be internal or external. Be being to strict about the scope, a project manager may block useful ideas and approaches which might be of essential value during project implementation.


Link - The Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management