Stakeholder Map
About this app
Ten stakeholders of project Lumen on the power-interest map: events shift the picture, a communication plan spreads six hours of attention per week across the project phases.
With explain mode: an AI tutor walks you through the app, points out what matters in the scene and answers your questions.
Sorting stakeholders by power and interest
Stakeholders are all people and groups who can influence a project or are affected by it. The Mendelow matrix sorts them by power and interest into four quadrants: manage closely, keep satisfied, keep informed and monitor. The quadrant suggests how to deal with them. The placement is not permanent: someone with little power at the start may decide the outcome in a later phase, such as testing or approval. That is why the analysis is ongoing work.
What the app shows
In the case project Lumen (fictional), ten stakeholders stand on the map, among them management, production, pilot customer, works council and test laboratory. A colour ring shows each one's attitude. Six stops from requirements in week 1 to the trade fair in week 30 shift power and interest. Event cards such as a bottleneck or a budget cut act on attitude. In the communication plan you spread six hours of attention per week across measure and frequency. Support level, risk, extra cost and slack before the fair show the consequences.
Things to try
First place the stakeholders yourself on the map and compare with the reference. Then start with the plan "only the loud ones" and step through the stops: open expectations pile up for neglected stakeholders and escalate once they gain power. Then try the forward-looking plan and the watering can and compare cost and delay. Try bringing the test laboratory in early with a meeting.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a stakeholder analysis?
- A stakeholder analysis identifies people and groups who influence a project or are affected by it. It assesses expectations, attitude, power and interest and derives from this how the project communicates with each of them.
- How does the power-interest matrix work?
- The matrix plots power on one axis and interest on the other. High power and high interest mean manage closely. High power and low interest mean keep satisfied. Low power and high interest mean keep informed. When both are low, monitoring is enough.
- Why must the analysis be repeated during the project?
- Power and interest change with the phases. A test laboratory that hardly shows during requirements can set the date at approval. Whoever picks up expectations too late pays with rework and delay.
- How reliable are the values in the app?
- Power values, effects of measures and cost rates are teaching assumptions, not measurements. The case project is invented. The two weeks of slack before the fair come from the network plan of the case.
Subject: Projektmanagement
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