Stakeholder Management

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PMI® Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2019

November 13, 2019 | Online

Join us for PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2019! This virtual event will explore the latest trends in business analysis and provide you with the insights, resources, and tools to advance your career and enhance project success.

Upcoming Webinars

What’s In-Between: The Enterprise Agility Strategy Gap

Aug 11, 2026 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)

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***This is a PMI-Led webinar*** This session deepens PMI research on enterprise agility, exploring real world examples of implementation in action from both the executive and practitioner perspectives. Our experts will highlight how all stakeholders have to be active, empowered players in enterprise agility for it to succeed, emphasizing the need for psychological safety and strong communication pathways.

Why Relationships Make or Break Infrastructure Projects

Aug 13, 2026 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4)

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***This is a PMI Led Webinar*** This webinar shares why inter-organizational relationships are vital for infrastructure project success and shares the key recommendations that help deliver project success. Based on a research collaboration between PMI, University College London and MIGSO-PCUBED.

Advance Your Career

In My Shoes-One Culture, Many Times Zones: Building Belonging in a Fully Distributed Workforce

by Megan Speight, Neema Jain, Omar Saleem, Simone Vargas

July 21, 2026 | 61:20 | Views: 2,020 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.73 / 5

A panel discussion designed for the project management community, exploring how to build and sustain a strong, safe, and diverse culture across fully distributed teams. The panelists with complementary perspectives, spanning leadership, distributed team management, and Culture strategy, will share practical frameworks that project managers can apply when leading or collaborating within virtual, cross-cultural teams.

Leadership That Lasts: Building Sustainable Value in a Changing World

by Rupal Bhandari, Michael Bianchi, Lloyd Skinner, Fernanda Torre, Terence Mauri

July 07, 2026 | 60:55 | Views: 4,897 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.60 / 5

This session explores what responsible, systemic leadership looks like in a complex Changing World.

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Save Time With Tools + Templates

Project Outline Template

PREMIUM deliverable

by Anand Pillarisetti

The purpose of this Project Outline template is to clearly explain the reason for starting the project and ensure alignment among stakeholders. It acts as a high-level communication tool to share essential information with both leadership and project teams, helping to initiate the project smoothly—especially when team members are spread across different locations.

Sponsor/PM Partnership Health Assessment

PREMIUM deliverable

by Lonnie Pacelli

If you have friction in your sponsor relationships, there are guidelines you should consider—and then decide where you and your sponsor have the most room to improve. To help, check out this assessment template to identify areas to improve the sponsor/PM partnership health. Use in conjunction with the article 12 Guidelines to Build a Sustainable Sponsor/PM Partnership.

Stakeholder Engagement Register

PREMIUM deliverable

by Theresah Nyantakyi

This Stakeholder Engagement Register helps to identify project stakeholders, along with their roles and influence; along with the communication mediums, tools and technology that will be needed to keep them engaged on a project.

The Project Canvas

PREMIUM presentation

by Antonio Nieto

The Project Canvas framework, which covers the basic principles and fundamentals of projects that everyone should know, is practical and easy to implement. It is a proven tool that will assist you in leading projects more successfully and in making your dreams a reality.

Privacy Policy Checklist

PREMIUM checklist

Protecting your customers' personal data should be job one. If you don't have a privacy policy in place, you need to do that five minutes ago. This checklist will help ensure that your privacy policy will be successfully put together, rolled out to the troops and followed.

Learn From Others

4 Underappreciated Dimensions of Business Acumen

by Michael Wood May 1, 2026

Building on the business acumen foundations of financial literacy, strategic thinking, and data-driven decision-making, this article turns to four dimensions of business acumen that are often underappreciated yet equally transformative.

Stop Avoiding Conflict...Start Using It

by Michael Wood April 16, 2026

The most effective project managers don’t avoid conflict; they get skilled at it. They treat every stakeholder disagreement not as a threat to the project, but as information about where the real risks are hiding.

Navigating Regulatory Rapids: Project Management Lessons from Leading MIPS in a Large Healthcare Network

by Ramsey Abdallah, Tiffany Jagrooph April 7, 2026

Managing a MIPS project is not just a compliance exercise. It is a complex, high-stakes project that demands strategic foresight, adaptability, and exceptional stakeholder engagement. And the lessons these practitioners learned extend beyond just the healthcare industry.

Why Great Product Managers Sound Like Customers, Not Executives

by Bart Gerardi October 16, 2025

Great PMs don’t sound like executives. They sound like customers. Not because they ignore strategy or business needs, but because strategy only works when it’s anchored in the lived experience of the people using your product.

Why Project Managers Make the Best Car Buyers

by Mike Donoghue October 1, 2025

The first step in project management is finding out which features are needed, which are nice to have, and which are insane and unrealistic. And those skills come in handy in one of the most nerve-racking "real life" projects we can face.

How PM Snuck Its Way Into My Everyday Life

by Michael Wood September 24, 2025

PM processes, tools, and techniques invaded this practitioner's daily existence, whether he liked it or not…turning him into a slightly neurotic, but oddly efficient, human being.

Toddlers Are the Toughest Stakeholders

by Mike Donoghue September 17, 2025

You may think you’ve mastered all forms of difficult personalities, but will your PM skills be put to the test when you face the toughest stakeholder of them all: the toddler. What can we learn from these bundles of joy?

The Portugal Project: A Real-Life PM Adventure

by Bruce Garrod September 10, 2025

Every one of us is a project manager in daily life, whether we recognize it or not. Here's how one practitioner put on his PM hat for an anniversary vacation to Portugal.

Social Media for Community Stakeholder Engagement in Infrastructure Projects

by Ken Chung, Pernille Eskerod, Anna Lund Jepsen, Jingbo Zhang July 21, 2025

Community stakeholders in infrastructure projects are often not effectively engaged, leading to issues such as project delays. There is a lack of guidance for engaging external stakeholders in the context of social media availability. New PMI-funded research address this need.

The Power of Connection: A Key Lesson From an ERP Implementation Project

by Fay Young July 2, 2025

How can you create influence without authority? Connecting that creates influence comes from who you know, what you know, and the trust you build. Influence is the result of connecting, not titles.