Business Analysis: Master Stakeholder Profiling in 6 Steps

Identify, plan, and negotiate for the resources you need on your next project

Created by: Roxanne Miller, Retired CBAP
Requirements Super Freak; Author of The Quest for Software R

What Will I Learn?

• Successfully identify and gain access to the stakeholders you need.
• Avoid missed requirements due to overlooked stakeholders.
• Manage and optimize the resources you have.
• Eliminate wasted time in 'all-team' meetings.
• Increase stakeholder buy-in and commitment to the requirements.
• Plan requirements development activities to align with resource availability.
• Forecast when the stakeholders will be needed.
• Estimate how much time you'll need with each stakeholder.
• Overcome challenges with stakeholders who are bottlenecks, unavailable, knowledge hoarders, inexperienced, or un-cooperative.
• Raise attention to potential project risks due to the lack of resources.

Requirements

• A basic understanding of a requirements development process and the necessity to involve stakeholders
• An open-mind, and a willingness to apply this proven technique on your next project

Target audience

• New Business Analysts interested in learning how to identify and gain access to the right stakeholder resources
• Experienced Business Analysts looking to improve their negotiating power to gain access to stakeholder resources
• Project Mangers interested in improving their ability to better allocate stakeholder resources.
• Product Owners interested in learning how to best assign resources to initiatives
• Project Sponsors who want to manage stakeholder resources