Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, The University of Surrey, course: Project management, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with project management in practice. It is divided into two parts. The first part provides an overview of stakeholder management, which is considered to be an important aspect of contemporary project management. The different stakeholder management approaches and the associated methods of analysing stakeholders and appropriate strategies are identified. Furthermore, multiple views on stakeholder management and best practice will be considered and reviewed with case studies of well-known international projects being used to highlight the theory-practice gap.

The second part provides a detailed project plan of a one day charity golf tournament and dinner with victory ceremony. It includes the scope statement, work-breakdown-structure, cost-breakdown-structure, organisational-breakdown-structure, critical path, project timing and risk, stakeholder analysis, control and monitoring and project closure.