Stakeholder management planning
Stakeholders and project management

This process involves developing appropriate management strategies to effectively involve stakeholders throughout the project life cycle, based on an analysis of their needs, interests and potential impact on the project's success.

It will be necessary to compare the level of commitment of all stakeholders against the planned levels of commitment required for successful completion of the project.

Stakeholder involvement throughout the project lifecycle is essential to success.

The level of stakeholder engagement can be classified as follows:

• unconscious: unaware of the project and its potential impacts ;

• reluctant: aware of the project and its potential impacts, but reluctant to change;

• neutral: aware...