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Activity:

Plan Iteration Stakeholder Involvement (CMMI Level 2 : PP 2.6 )

Participating Roles

Responsible:

Project Manager

Accountable:

Project Manager

Consult:

Any

Informed:

All

Overview

Entry Criteria

  • A list of the stakeholders required to successfully complete the proposed iteration backlog.

Sub-Activities

1

Determine when the Stakeholder is Needed

  • Identify when each stakeholder is needed in the iteration: at the beginning; throughout; only at the end; or based on some specific days in the calendar; or following some specific event.

2

Determine the Degree of Involvement

  • Estimate the degree of involvement.
  • Is the stakeholder being held accountable for one or more work items?
  • Are they responsible for doing the work?
  • Does this require full time or merely part-time effort?
  • Are they only consulted or informed?
  • Will they be required to be on-call or available for meetings?
  • Are they expected to read documents and provide feedback? If so how much, how often, and in what depth?
  • Are they critical to the flow of work? Does failure to meet their commitments as a stakeholder put the iteration deliverable at risk? If so, then this should be added as a risk for management.

3

Publish Stakeholder Involvement Plan

  • Publish the required level of involvement for all the stakeholders to the project portal.

Exit Criteria

A plan detailing the time and level of involvement required by each stakeholder in the current iteration.

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