The Project Management Podcast Series

Managing your project stakeholders


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In this podcast you will learn in Chapter 1 about project stakeholders, crucially the differences between primary and secondary stakeholders.

Chapter 2 what’s in it for them as a stakeholder

Chapter 3 How to manage project stakeholders 

Chapter 4 summarise the podcast discussion on project stakeholders 

Primary stakeholders are the key group of people and are those folks, I would suggest are the most important group of stakeholders, with the main stakeholder being and defined by the a number of professional bodies such as the APM, as the project sponsor. The project sponsor is the main stakeholder responsible for the business case, that is right the project sponsor is responsible for the business case and not as most people want to think the project manager. In reality, the project manager will most likely, and I certainly did do this, will need to get involved in producing a lot of the content or organising for the content to be produced 

A project stakeholder can simply be defined as someone who has a direct interest in the outcome of your project. This could be the end user of an IT digital system or the office worker moving into a new building. Crucially, the primary stakeholders are the people who have the authority and power over the project itself and usually the project manager reports in to that person. I do appreciate the project manager can and sometimes does report into a steering group or oversight committee.

Other examples of interested stakeholders are the public along the route of HS2 as these people are interest ed in where the actual rail link will be The main project sponsor is identified as the one that has control of the budget or the money. This is the one person we need to go to as the project manager to obtain sign off of key project documents and provide support to the project

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The Project Management Podcast SeriesBy Allan Jones