ABSTRACT
The easiest way to get the proper engagement of stakeholders in your project is to miss the first deadline.
—Daniel Podolský, 2013
Stakeholder management is the newest knowledge area introduced by PMI in their PMBOK ® Guide, Fifth Edition [PMI 2013a]. It is so new that it has just been added to this project health assessment methodology and critical success factor (CSF) list. Prior to that, the communications management CSF covered stakeholder management with two process steps: identify stakeholders, and manage stakeholder expectations.
