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Stakeholder Analysis

This document provides templates and questions to help a project manager identify stakeholders and understand their roles, interests, and potential impact. It includes a list of questions to consider all possible stakeholders and their concerns. It also has additional questions to better understand each significant stakeholder and their goals, authority, and relationship to the project.

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Stakeholder Analysis

This document provides templates and questions to help a project manager identify stakeholders and understand their roles, interests, and potential impact. It includes a list of questions to consider all possible stakeholders and their concerns. It also has additional questions to better understand each significant stakeholder and their goals, authority, and relationship to the project.

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[Project Name] Stakeholder Analysis

Project Manager

Stakeholder Role Profile


These questions will encourage the project team to consider a wide variety of stakeholders.
Use these questions to identify as many stakeholders as possible. After generating the list, you
may decide some of the stakeholders are represented by other stakeholders or will have so little
involvement in the project that you don’t need to consider them and you may remove them from
your list.

This list is a starting point


Add questions to this list that fit your project environment. If you miss an important stakeholder
on one project, add a question to this list that will cause the next project team to identify that
stakeholder.

For each of the questions below answer the question: “Who…?”


Question All stakeholders that apply. Use
people’s names whenever possible.
1. Approves funding for this project?
2. Approves functional requirements?
3. Approves technical requirements?
4. Approves design decisions?
5. Approves changes to requirements?
6. Approves changes affecting schedule?
7. Approves changes affecting cost?
8. Will use the product or service produced by
the project?
9. Set the organizational goals that drive the
necessity of this project?
10. Will assign people to the project team and
determine the hours per day they work on the
project?
11. Approves contracts for suppliers?
12. Is the manager or executive sponsoring this
project (will use their authority on behalf of
the project team to overcome organizational
obstacles)?
13. Will manage the project (provide leadership to
assure tasks are assigned and completed on
time, cost and schedule are monitored, issues
are identified and resolved)?
14. Represents organization policies governing
this project?
15. Represents regulations or laws affecting this
project?
16. Will have their work disrupted by this project?

Fast Foundation for Project Management – Stakeholder Analysis


Reference The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, Chapter 5
Filename: 758249613.doc 1 of 2
[Project Name] Stakeholder Analysis
Project Manager

17. Will have to change their systems or


processes because of this project?
18. Will benefit from this project? (If this is a large
group, who will represent this group?)
19. Will perform the work on this project? (This
includes all vendors and subcontractors as
well as employees)
20. Will participate in phase gate decisions to
approve moving the project to the next
phase?

Stakeholder Alignment Questions


These questions will ask for a minimum amount of understanding about each stakeholder. Use
these for each stakeholder that has a high interest in the project or can have a high impact on the
project. The better you understand each stakeholder, the better prepared you’ll be to win
cooperation.

Not for publication


These questions are meant to stimulate thinking about stakeholders. Your assumptions and
insights into the motivations of each stakeholder or stakeholder group are a private assessment
and should not be published.

For each significant stakeholder, answer the following questions:


Name: Title:
1. What is their contribution to the project?
2. To whom do they report?
3. What authority do they have over the project?
4. What is their goal for the project (what is their
stake in the project) and how does it relate to
their organization’s goal or other personal
goals? (What makes this a ‘win’ for them?)
5. Do they present a specific threat or
opportunity?
6. What perception do you want them to have
about the project?

Plan Communication
Use the Communication Plan and Responsibility Matrix templates to document roles and
responsibilities and how you’ll keep your stakeholders engaged and informed.

Fast Foundation for Project Management – Stakeholder Analysis


Reference The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, Chapter 5
Filename: 758249613.doc 2 of 2

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