There is no such thing as a team, or a project, if we have no people with whom we can create it. The people we work with are actually our biggest strength, especially at the beginning of our Project Management career path.

The first thing we need to do is to:

1. analyze who our future colleagues are,
2. what their roles are and
3. how we will communicate with them.

The initial task for a project manager is to:

1. organize a meeting with stakeholders and then
2. to communicate decisions, project information and other details to them.

A template and a document that can assist us in executing this in a proper way is called a “Stakeholder Map”.

Let’s cover this first topic in detail and learn how to use it straight away.