Can anyone kindly help clarify the following concepts?
1)
Resource management plan - guidance on how to acquire physical and team resource
Procurement management plan - make-or-buy decision
which plan should we refer to when it comes to acquiring resources? And when the acquire resource direction changes, which plan should we revise (first)?
2)
Communication management plan
Stakeholder engagement plan
I am always very confused when question asks which plan should I update if there is a need to change the stakeholder engagement or new stakeholder identified, I think both are required, but I always pick the wrong answer. Can anyone help explain the difference and relationship between these two from stakeholder engagement perspective?
1. Good question. I'd suggest that the "how/who/what/where/when" of resource management is in the RMP whereas the specifics around the procurement/acquisition of those is in the PMP. The former is needed regardless of whether we are using external resources or not, whereas the latter would only come into play when we are dealing with external resources.
2. The CMP provides the "who/what/why/when/how/where" of communications which is just one (albeit important) aspect of stakeholder engagement. The SEP will cover the overall engagement approach for identified stakeholders. There could be stakeholders within the register who are referenced in the SEP but do not have any references in the CMP. For example, if we are launching a product in a competitive market, our competitors are stakeholders, but we would never communicate with them. As such, they'd be referenced in the SEP but not in the CMP. Also remember that the stakeholder management knowledge area is a relatively new one (as of The PMBOK Guide, Fifth Edition) and in previous editions stakeholder engagement was part of the communications knowledge area.
