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Stakeholder Analysis

Identifying the right stakeholders takes careful thought and analysis. How do you ensure all the stakeholders are involved and how do you manage their involvement?

Stop the project plan crash. You are the expert.

by Adrian Reed on December 7, 2011 · 16 comments

in Engaging Project Leaders,Roles and Responsibilities,Stakeholder Analysis

Imagine the scene.  It’s 22:30, and an aircraft is preparing to take off for a long haul flight. In the cockpit, the captain and first officer are busy carrying out their final pre-flight checks.  They check the weather, the fuel levels and a whole range of technical dials and indicators.  They start to map out [...]

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BA Stories: Warning – Stakeholder Analysis is Not Just About Discovering Requirements (BABOK 2.2)

by Laura Brandenburg on November 21, 2011 · 4 comments

in BA Stories,Stakeholder Analysis

One of the most essential aspects of planning your business analysis is to find the right people to elicit requirements from in the first place. Often these individuals are also involved in analyzing and approving the requirements or other deliverables. And this, no surprise, is a separate task in the BABOK, called Conduct Stakeholder Analysis. [...]

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A project is like a visiting a city – and some of your stakeholders might need help

by Adrian Reed on September 7, 2011 · 3 comments

in Engaging the Business,Stakeholder Analysis

Have you ever considered to what extent your SMEs and stakeholders understand “projects” and the more broad discipline of “business change”? It’s something that’s rarely talked about, but I recently had an experience outside of work that has led me to re-evaluate the assumptions I make about stakeholders’ knowledge. I’ll tell you my story…. I [...]

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Investing Some Time in Stakeholder Analysis

by Michelle Swoboda on May 18, 2011 · 12 comments

in Stakeholder Analysis

As of last Monday, I reported to my new contract position in a company that I have never worked for.  One of the first items on the agenda – stakeholder analysis.  This company is very structured in its business analysis and I love it.  I am using a newly formulated stakeholder analysis template that I [...]

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What BAs can learn from stand up comedy

by Adrian Reed on May 4, 2011 · 5 comments

in Problem Solving,Requirements Elicitation,Stakeholder Analysis

Sometimes inspiration comes from the most unusual of places.  I’m a real fan of stand up comedy, and as any true stand-up fan will tell you, the only way to fully appreciate a show is to see it live.  I have spent many a Friday evening enjoying unheard-of-acts performing in small, intimate venues. On one [...]

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Identifying Hidden Project Stakeholders by Connecting the Relationships

by Joan Davis on February 17, 2011 · 5 comments

in Engaging the Business,Stakeholder Analysis

When beginning work on a project – whether joining an existing effort or helping to plan the kick-off – the competent BA looks around at the players to identify the Stakeholders in this initiative and what they care about.  After all, they’re the ones that will have to live with the outcome.  The obvious Stakeholders [...]

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Do you have the key business stakeholders involved in your project?

by DougGtheBA on September 23, 2009 · 9 comments

in Engaging the Business,Stakeholder Analysis

If customers are not receiving what they ask for in a project deliverable, what causes that? Where would everything fall apart to the point that requirements were not being carried out through implementation? Chances are the analyst may have had an incorrect or partially incorrect set of key stakeholders providing input to the requirements. When [...]

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Whose perception of value do we care about?

by Laura Brandenburg on August 12, 2009 · 7 comments

in Engaging the Business,Stakeholder Analysis

As business analysts we often deal with business stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization. Someone has to help multiple people align around a common understanding of a project concept and then create a plan of action to implement the best possible solution and it’s a natural place for the BA to be, even if [...]

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