Stakeholder Engagement Plan
The Stakeholder Engagement Plan is one of several project management plan documents that your Project Manager at Solid Design Solutions Australia (Solid Design) will create to begin your new product development project. Identifying who the project stakeholders are for a project is critical to fully capturing the requirements and ensuring that all stakeholders agree on these requirements. Every experienced Project Manager knows the highest priority in managing a project is communicating and managing expectations among key project stakeholders. The Stakeholder Engagement Plan is the project manager’s tool for ensuring everyone involved in the project is on the same page. The primary steps of creating the plan are:
- Identify project stakeholders and record all of their contact details, background, role in the project and requested method and frequency of communication in a Stakeholder Register
- Create a stakeholder categorisation method to group Stakeholders
- Assign each project stakeholder to a stakeholder category
- Define an engagement strategy for each category of stakeholder
- Communicate the Stakeholder Engagement Plan details with the Project Sponsor and all Project Stakeholders
- Refine the plan with ongoing feedback from all stakeholders
Within a Project Management Plan there are many sub plans related to the 10 BOMBOK® Knowledge Areas. Some may only be a paragraph in the in the Project Management Plan and will refer to related project documents that are revision controlled. Each one of these plans is created through a process of planning, collecting details, defining scope/tasks, analysing/estimating/validating and building the individual plan. Project Managers at Solid Design use these plan details to communicate project management strategy with the project sponsor, project team members and key project Stakeholders.
- Scope Management Plan
- Schedule Management Plan
- Cost Management Plan
- Quality Management Plan
- Requirements Management Plan
- Risk Management Plan
- Resource Management Plan
- Communications Management Plan
- Procurement Management Plan
- Stakeholder Engagement Plan
- Change Management Plan
- Configuration Management Plan
Let’s get started and create a project plan that fits your product development project needs! Send us an email or give us a call. We’ll set up a meeting, review your new product development goals and objectives and get the process moving.