Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Inside Out

Working with the Project Stakeholders

Every project has a set of stakeholders associated with it. Project stakeholders are individuals or organizations who are connected to the project in one way or another and can influence the project’s outcome. As the project manager, you need to be able to work with different types of stakeholders in various ways. A stakeholder can do the following:

• Be actively involved in the work of the project.

• Exert influence over the project and its outcome (also known as managing stakeholders).

• Have a vested interest in the outcome of a project.

There are a variety of stakeholder categories, each supported in its own way by Microsoft Project. The categories are as follows:

• Project manager. Microsoft Project directly supports ...