One of the key aspects of developing your project plan is understanding who is involved with this project and their role as it impacts the project. Once you have identified your stakeholders, it is also important look at how often and in what way you should be communicating with these individuals.

Review Exhibits 5.4 and 5.11 from the text before beginning this assignment.

Stakeholder Assessment – Identify the stakeholders for your project and complete a Stakeholder Identification and Prioritization Matrix (exhibit 5.4) for your project as well as stakeholder engagement assessment matrix. Describe briefly how you will work to engage each stakeholder and move them to where you would like them to be within the engagement matrix.

Communication Plan – Create your Communications Matrix (exhibit 5.11) using your identified stakeholders.

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Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.

Use font size 12 and 1” margins.

Include cover page and reference page.

At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.

No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.

Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.

Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

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