Planning stakeholder engagement
At this point in the stakeholder management knowledge area, you have already created the stakeholder register. Now, you will take that information, along with your plan for communications, and utilize both of those to craft an engagement plan. This process will be iterative because stakeholders come and go, and the ones that stay might change their engagement needs throughout the project. I'm sure you have experienced situations where you have an extremely supportive stakeholder at the beginning and they need very little in the way of engagement to keep them happy and communicate effectively. Then, a risk event occurs. Dun dun duh! Rut roh. Now that stakeholder becomes irritated and demanding. So, what do you do? Update how you engage with them. Evidently, something has gone sideways, and you'll need to adapt the plan accordingly. The goal of this process is to involve your stakeholders based on their needs, expectations, impacts, and interests...