Difficult and Virtual Stakeholders

Perform the following tasks:

Step 1: Respond to the following questions:

What are the consequences of not controlling stakeholder engagement? A PMI article identified the following types of problem stakeholders: Micro-managers, pushies, doubting thomases, procrastinators, scope creeps, and saboteurs. Discuss your strategies for handling difficult stakeholders on your projects or your stakeholder management plan. 

What are the advantages and disadvantages of working with virtual stakeholders?

Use the assigned case study “Fiat Group  in the Mastering Project Human Resource Management textbook on pp. 217-218 to answer the following questions:

Discuss the concept of project management family within the context of this case.

What did Comau do to control project communications?

What are the lessons learned from this case?