How to Conduct a Stakeholder Interview?

• Establish Goals Establish Goals
• Find Stakeholders Find Stakeholders
• Prepare Questons Prepare Questons
• Document and Analyze Responses

Pick and choose the questions that are most relevant to your project and enjoy a stress-free stakeholder interview.

Business Goals

• Why is your company investing in a new product?
• What are the business goals?
• Why are we doing this?
• What is the company vision?
• How is your organization (or your customers) experiencing the problems?
• What do you currently have too little of (sales, profits, customers, etc.), or too much of (complaints, product returns, service calls, etc.)?
• What would a successful outcome of this project look like to you?
• How will you, personally, define success for this project?
• What must be addressed in this project?
• What should this project accomplish for the business?
• Why do you feel that your organization needs to complete this deliverable?
• What do you hope it will accomplish for your organization?
• Why now?