Managing communication through Network mapping

A stakeholder is a person or organization of interest for or whom are interested in the project on hand. It is therefore important for the project manager to manage and be sure what the stakeholders opinion is to the topic at hand. One way of looking at the stakeholder is through a network perspective where every stakeholder I connected to the project but some of the stakeholders might also be connected to one and another. By identifying the power that each and every stakeholder have and the link between the different stakeholders it is possible to observe what dangers there might be in a less powerful stakeholder might have of possibilities if they are close connected to a powerful stakeholder. By looking into the Stakeholder connections it might be possible to gain a better understanding on why stakeholders act the way they do and thereby be better at giving them the right amount of interest in order to keep them satisfied.

Introduction to stakeholder

A stakeholder is defined in the ISO standard 21500 from 2013 as person,group or organization that has interests in, or can affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by, ant aspect of the project By that definition the stakeholders will include many people, organizations and some of them whit more or else degree of uncertainty and interest. Since there is so many stakeholders possibly involved in a project stakeholder management and mapping is essential in order to keep every part of the project satisfied.