ABSTRACT
One of the major transformations in the fifth edition of the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge published in 2013, was the addition of a tenth knowledge area dedicated to Project Stakeholders Management. Stakeholder management is not a new area for project managers, but the decision to elevate it to a fully-fledged knowledge area, sitting alongside the well-acknowledged fundamental areas required to achieve effective project management, such as time, scope, risk, quality, communications and integration management, represents a sort of coming of age. For indeed, stakeholder engagement or consideration is increasingly recognised as critical to the successful delivery of projects, and to the long-term embedding of change.
