Data representation
One of the main tools and techniques for categorizing stakeholders falls under the category of data representation. When you can categorize your stakeholders, you can help the team build good relationships with the project stakeholders that have been identified and then iteratively update them.
The five main ways you should do this are as follows:
- Power/interest grid, power/influence grid, or impact/influence grid
- Stakeholder cube
- Salience model
- Directions of influence
- Prioritization
Let's go over these one by one.
Power/interest grid, power/influence grid, or impact/influence grid
This particular technique has a lot of names and there's a minute difference between them. The reason you may choose one or the other could be based on your comfort level. If someone walks by your desk and sees that you have listed their power as low, that could result in some uncomfortable conversations, purely based on perception. For...
