- Stakeholder - is any individual team organization or some way to classify people that has an interest in a system.
- As an architect, you will be able to win support for your plans by basically doing a really great presentation to the stakeholders and explaining to them how your plans help them.
- First point is to know who are the powerful stakeholders, who you have to keep happy
- it doesn't mean the person who's doing the work is less important in the overall scheme.
- But the people that you have to make happy are the people who are the ones that are decision makers.
- So having good stakeholder management does make things easier for you as you get your documents signed off and you get the budgets to do the work.
- Establishing a communication plan to know how often to communicate with these people, what level of detail to give them.
- And it's also being able to read the room, understand what the problems are.
- Found the conflicts earlier in order to be able to navigate those and not be tricked.
- Power of individuals and the level of their interest (high interest means the level of decision making) in your project:
