Program Stakeholder Management

Every program is dependent on people andcompetitors, or private citizens affected by the
organizations for funding and acceptance, fordelivered system
requirement acquisitions, for supplying resources,The first process under this knowledge area is plan
expertise and experience to the program, for takingprogram stakeholder management. This process falls
over the responsibility for the program outcome, andunder the planning process group and is performed by
the experiences made, etc.the program manager, program sponsor, governance
Program stakeholders comprise all individuals andboard and other primary entities
organizations involved in or affected by the programConnecting the phase, process group and the process,
or its outcome. Successful program completion reliesthe plan program stakeholder management process
on how well the program manager cooperates andfalls under the planning process group, in the program
communicates with these stakeholdersset-up phase and belongs to stakeholder Management
Program stakeholders are individuals or organizations,knowledge area.
internal or external to the organization, activelyThe primary focus of this process is to document how
contributing in the project or only affected by thestakeholders will be identified and managed, which
project or its outcome. They may have a positive ortools will be used and who will be involved in
negative attitude to the programstakeholder management.
External entities that may have an influence on theThis process is all about planning for stakeholder
program or be affected by the program or itsmanagement. This includes documenting the guidelines
outcome could be the end users, as well as authoritiesfor stakeholder management both at the program
responsible for standards and regulations, partners orlevel and the project level.