An experienced program manager is leading a development program in a new company. While reviewing company procedures for formulating a program, they discover there is no company practice for…

Question

Options

• APrepare the stakeholder engagement plan for approval by the program steering committee.
• BAnalyze the business environment to identify key stakeholders, and then perform a stakeholder
• CConduct a brainstorming session with the program team to identify and analyze external
• DCreate a project-level stakeholder analysis, and then perform a high-level program stakeholder

• A
  72% (23)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  19% (6)

Explanation

During program formulation, the stakeholder engagement plan is the foundational document that defines how all key stakeholders - including suppliers - will be identified and managed. Since the company has no existing practice for supplier management, the program manager must create this plan to fill that gap and then submit it for steering committee approval. This is the prerequisite step to obtaining formal program approval. Options B, C, and D describe analytical or discovery activities, but those feed INTO the stakeholder engagement plan rather than directly enabling program approval. The steering committee needs to see a formal plan, not just analysis.

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