I wonder whether you are a proper stakeholder.

Working on a project requires a lot of resources. The difficulty of gathering resources is secondary to developing a product concept. This problem makes the basis that a project requires three or more stakeholders who are relevant to the objectives of a product, but they are ready in terms of resources such as money and infrastructure.

Quoting to the Project Management Institute, the failure of a project is usually caused by a lack of project sponsors. The project sponsor is the main stakeholder who provides a lot of resources and advocacy from the very beginning of the project until the project is completed. However, in a project, there is not only a project sponsor. But several other stakeholders need to be identified by:

1. Ask your project sponsor and business analyst for a preliminary list of stakeholders.
2. Interview specific people on your team to gain knowledge about stakeholder groups.
3. If you want to engage a larger audience, hold workshops.
4. Also, provide a survey for all stakeholder teams working remotely.
5. The most important thing, of course, is to review the project documentation. From here, you will know a lot of information, such as the business processes and organizational structure of the project being worked on.

Don't let the list of stakeholder names spread across multiple documents; make it a primary copy. This document is called the Stakeholder Register, in the form of a table like this.

The list of stakeholders is then made into a map by considering the strengths and interests in this project.

After mapping all existing stakeholders, it's time to make an engagement plan between existing stakeholders using the Stakeholder Engagement Assessment Matrix.

This table will map each stakeholder at which level, complete with the desired level of transformation of these stakeholders. To make changes to a level that is below the Neutral level, you can do it in two ways, namely:

1. We identify the reason for resistance. It could be a concern about losing control over the process or being fearful about learning new systems.
2. Find ways to minimize concerns and maximize opportunities.

Well, that's the way to manage stakeholders in a project. Let me know if you have several questions to be clarified in the comment section below!