Chapter 1
Foundations of Project Management
Course: Pmp Test Prep
Subject: Pmp
Chapter: Stakeholders And Resources Performance Domains 5506 10748
Lesson 2: Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Processes
The Stakeholders domain carries seven processes — more than any domain except Governance — and they fall into two intertwined tracks that run in parallel across the project: engaging stakeholders and communicating with them.
This lesson works through all seven processes, showing how the domain moves from identifying stakeholders, to planning both their engagement and the communications that support it, to managing and then monitoring each.
It also introduces the analysis tools that make engagement deliberate rather than intuitive, including the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix.
For the aspiring project manager, the highest-yield content here is the parallel structure of the engagement and communications tracks and the "current versus desired" logic of engagement assessment. The throughline is that stakeholder engagement is a continuous, structured cycle — identify, plan, manage, monitor — performed throughout the project, with communications woven through every step.