Summary

In this chapter, you reviewed the remaining stakeholder management processes, such as planning for stakeholder engagement and managing and monitoring that engagement throughout the project. Project managers have the responsibility to engage their stakeholders throughout the project, even if the stakeholders change their engagement needs. Even though this chapter is shorter than most, it is perhaps one of the more important aspects of project management. This is because we need to be sure that we are interacting appropriately with our stakeholders and ensuring their needs are met.

In the next chapter, you will review the integration knowledge area, the finalized version of the project management plan, how to execute project work and produce deliverables. Additionally, we will look at formal change control monitoring, controlling project work, and how to close out the project or phase. The integration chapter will wrap up everything we have covered so far, and it should give...