You already know about it. Stakeholder influences define the environment. Most project misfortunes are caused by the stakeholders.
- Identify the stakeholders.
- Get stakeholder agreement, perform stakeholder clarity analysis; measure how passionate they are about the project.
- Acknowledge what you have understood of the project goals and what is in its way – get their feedback on this.
- Seek for the balance amongst all the stakeholder’s expectations – more imbalance in expectations; more chances to fail.
- What are your top priorities from stakeholder’s perspective – get a clear idea.
- Determine how each of the players can influence the project on a positive or negative way and how the project can be benefited from it
- Know about inter-relationships between all the players and the consequences that it is going to make.
- Compile the environment analysis report along with your comments and conclusions and send it over.
Dealing with teething troubles is less knotty, if you know who the enemy is. Environment Analysis Report is a great tool which helps you discover it and give the clarity to everyone involved.
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