Identification of the Stakeholders
Stakeholders play a significant role in the project implementation process. The case study on the LAMP-H project provided an overview of the types of stakeholders and their specific roles for project success. The project was specifically designed and implemented by the United States America Military to acquire high-speed boats for the management of security and ensure that the boats could transport staff and provision to the ships in the deep oceans (Sutterfield et al., 2006). The key stakeholders required to give their opinions on the project were the s sectional managers, financial executives, transportation, and watercraft R&D center. Each stakeholder’s opinions mattered in the project, which is why they were all involved in the process.
Analysis of Stakeholder Influence
Stakeholder analysis is an important process investigating stakeholders’ roles and how each can change the project’s outcome. The analysis helps the project manager to determine the interrelationships and how to make decisions that would impact the project positively. Based on the action of each of the stakeholders in the case study. The financial managers had a low potential for cooperation and a high potential for threat because they wanted to be happier with the projects. Functional managers wanted the transport facilities improved but needed to support the boats, and therefore they had low potential for threat and cooperation (Armenia et al., 2019). The transport managers are directly involved in the implementation of the project, and therefore they have the highest potential for threat and cooperation. The project manager must therefore engage them positively to get better outcomes. The involvement of the watercraft R&D is limited and has a low potential for threat and cooperation.
A Potential Threat
The potential threat in a project can be analyzed from different prongs, for example, when there is a delay in the funds, the project is negatively affected. The role of the financial department in the project is critical, and small negligence from the finance department will lead to massive failure in the project.
A Potential for Cooperation
The functional heads of the different departments made it possible to ensure that the staff had adequate information and cooperated well for the project implementation. The functional heads solicited funds to ensure the project was successful (de Oliveira & Rabechini Jr, 2019). It is imperative to note that even though the watercraft R&D failed to obtain and prepare accurate specifications, they were willing to make amendments and make things done.
A Strategy Adopted
One of the most effective tools the project manager can use is stakeholder analysis to ensure that all the implemented actions are in tandem with the stakeholders. The analysis was the key strategy because the real traits of all the project personnel were seen. Therefore it was possible to motivate the stakeholders who were not in support of the project implementation and ensure that they were part and parcel of the project implementation team (de Oliveira & Rabechini Jr, 2019). Analyzing the stakeholders is the best because tasks will be assigned based on their potential.
Changes in the Stakeholder Map
The changes in the LAPM-H project failed because the new positions formed needed to reflect the true potential for success. The designation of a new title Project Execution Officers, and assigning it to a person without the necessary experience was the prerequisite for the failure. Further, appointing a new project manager and making the present project manager deputy increased the conflict levels. The conflicts and constant delays in the business led to the absolute failure of the project. Influence analysis in the project made an important aspect of the discourse (Armenia et al., 2019). Each stakeholder has a role to play; when they do not perform better, the entire project will likely fail. The project manager’s role is to investigate the project’s key challenges and handle them effectively.
Conclusion
LAMP-H project involved numerous stakeholders whom all have a say in the completion of the project. All the stakeholders did not support the project, and it is the role of the project manager to make it possible to overcome the challenge. The main strategy that the project manager can use to ensure project success is to conduct stakeholder analysis and ensure that all the weaknesses and challenges of the project are understood and fixed. Finally, whenever a person goes through the stakeholder analysis, there is a high chance that the project will succeed because all challenges are understood and analyzed.
Reference
Armenia, S., Dangelico, R. M., Nonino, F., & Pompei, A. (2019). Sustainable project management: A conceptualization-oriented review and a framework proposal for future studies. Sustainability, 11(9), 2664. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11092664
de Oliveira, G. F., & Rabechini Jr, R. (2019). Stakeholder management influence on trust in a project: A quantitative study. International journal of project management, 37(1), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.11.001
Sutterfield, J. S., Friday-Stroud, S. S., & Shivers-Blackwell, S. L. (2006). A case study of the project and stakeholder management failures: lessons learned. Project Management Journal, 37(5), 26-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/875697280603700504
