Stakeholder Identification

TCM 701 1

ORGANIZATION HOMEWORK Exercise 3.1 Stakeholder Identification Background This exercise continues your student project that will be used for several homework exercises. The scenario is that you work for the fictitious company: Bear Claw Corporation. You are a project manager assigned to a new project. You are in the defining and planning phases and tasked to produce the project planning documents. This exercise develops a list of stakeholders. Directions Develop a list of approximately 10 – 20 stakeholders; ensure that each stakeholder source is represented in your list: • Project – champion, leadership, team, consultant • Internal – sponsor, functional, support • External – vendor-contractor, government, interest, competitors, neighbors • Client – end-user, customer Produce a table listing your project stakeholders and indicate their source (project, internal, external, client). Exercise 3.2 Stakeholder Mapping Background This exercise continues your student project that will be used for several homework exercises. The scenario is that you work for the fictitious company: Bear Claw Corporation. You are a project manager assigned to a new project. You are in the defining and planning phases and tasked to produce the project planning documents. This exercise identifies and maps stakeholders. Directions Map each stakeholder by their power and interest. Group the stakeholders into common interaction groups, such as: • Monitor • Keep informed • Keep satisfied • Manage closely Produce a table listing your project stakeholders and their power and interest ranking or score. Also indicate their interaction group.