1

Determine When a Stakeholder is Needed

• Identify approximately when each stakeholder is needed throughout the project: and in which iterations they will be involved.

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 effort or merely part-time?
• 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 project commitments 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.

A plan detailing the time and level of involvement required by each stakeholder throughout the project life-cycle.