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MGT 6303-20.01.00-3A22-S1, Project Stakeholders

Book: Mastering Project Human Resource Management

By the end of this unit you should be able to:

Determine the processes of leading a team.

Determine the process to acquire project resources.

Measure alignment between stakeholders’ needs, expectations, and project objectives.

Assess project resource requirements.

 

To aid you in accomplishing these goals, you will need to complete the following graded activities:

 

Items Needed:

 

1 Discussion regarding project resources and the project environment.

 

1 Course Project where you will create a project resource acquisition plan (This is the essay requirement below)

 

The assigned reading from the study guide and textbook is a non-graded activity for the week.  However, it will prove to be valuable in completing the graded activities.

 

Instructions

Part 5: Resource Acquisition Plan

For the project you selected in Unit I, create a simple project resource acquisition plan. Your plan should follow the process for acquiring project resources, as referred to in Figures 5.1 and 5.2 (See below) in the textbook, as well as in the section beginning with A Plan is Not a Plan Until (page 31 – 45) in the eBook, Project Management: A Common-Sense Guide to the PMBOK Program, Part Two – Plan and Execution. Your plan should include an introduction, and should be able to answer the following questions:

• What policies and procedures exist in the project environment that governs resource acquisition?
• What are my criteria for resource selection?
• How many resources am I likely to require?
• What skill sets will I require?
• With whom should I plan to negotiate for resources, and how?
• How do I document and explain the detailed requirements in terms of time required, skillsets, budget, and accounting?

 

Feel free to make use of tables with the resource acquisition plan when describing itemized elements such as skillsets, numbers, criteria, and policies and procedures. Note also that the plan should end with an example of a project work package. An example work package can be found in the Unit V Lesson.

Submit your resource acquisition plan in the form of a minimum two-page document. Adhere to 7^th edition APA Style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed.

This formal paper example provided by the CSU Writing Center shows this type of formatting.

Note: In Unit VIII of this course, you will include a summary of your resource acquisition plan as part of a PowerPoint presentation.

 

Unit 1 essay – See below

 

Project Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Identification

Sales emporium services is an electronic product dealer company based in California. The company sales electronic products like Air conditioner, Television, washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerator etc. of different well-known brands (de Oliveira & Rabechini, 2019). The customer service of the company is always appreciated by the customers, as a result, the numbers of customers are also increasing rapidly. To improve the existing collaboration, save operational time and cost, simplify compliances, the company has decided to implement an ERP system. Some of the resources are in-house and some are outsourced.

The stakeholders identified for the project are categorized into internal and external, presented in the below section-

Internal	Project manager Operation manager Sponsor Business analyst Employees/ staffs
External	Application programmer Coder Tester Analyst Suppliers System developer Customers

 

Project Stakeholder Management

 Stakeholder analysis

Stakeholder analysis is defined as a process, used for analyzing stakeholder needs to deliver a quality project keeping it free from different obstacles. Stakeholders are analysed with respect to their power and interest based on collected qualitative information (Yu et al., 2017). The primary purpose of stakeholder analysis is to examine the potential issues with stakeholders.

To give a proper shape to the project, win additional economic profit, build trust among the employees and team members, stay beyond competition and obtain competitive advantages from the market stakeholder analysis is important. For this project, the stakeholders are analyzed based on their power, interest, and influence on project objectives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Project Stakeholder Management

	Stakeholders	Power	Interest
Internal	Project manager	High	High
	Operation manager	High	High
	Sponsor	High	High
	Business analyst	High	Low
	Employees/ staffs	Low	High
External	Application programmer	Low	High
	Coder	Low	High
	Tester	Low	Low
	Analyst	High	low
	Suppliers	Low	Low
	System developer	High	Low
	Customers	High	High

 

For analyzing the critical stakeholders four categories are considered. The high-powered and highly interested stakeholders are managed closely. The low-powered and highly interested stakeholders are kept informed. The stakeholders with low interest and high power are always kept satisfied and the low powered and low interested stakeholders are monitored throughout (Oppong, Chan & Dansoh, 2017). The high-priority stakeholders are more committed to the ERP system implementation project. The power interest grid is presented below to present the stakeholder’s priority

Project Stakeholder Management

 

 

Figure 1: Stakeholder matrix for the project

(Source: created by Karen Malone)

For the ERP system implementation project, stakeholder analysis is performed to enlist the key organizational players, gain early placement among all internal and external stakeholders on the project plan and goals. The analysis will also help to address the potential issues and conflicts. Throughout the project life cycle, these stakeholders should keep engaged in the project.

 

 

References

de Oliveira, G. F., & Rabechini Jr, R. (2019). Stakeholder management influence on trust in a project: A quantitative study. International Journal of Project Management, 37(1), 131-144.

Oppong, G. D., Chan, A. P., & Dansoh, A. (2017). A review of stakeholder management performance attributes in construction projects. International journal of project management, 35(6), 1037-1051.

Yu, T., Shen, G. Q., Shi, Q., Lai, X., Li, C. Z., & Xu, K. (2017). Managing social risks at the housing demolition stage of urban redevelopment projects: A stakeholder-oriented study using social network analysis. International journal of project management, 35(6), 925-941.