Why is Stakeholder alignment critical in Project Management?

In many organizations the business and IT are working in isolation. So, for projects particularly IT based projects, what typically happens is that the business defines their requirements, then throws them “over the wall” to IT. IT then implements the requirement, only to be told that it wasn’t the solution that the business needed once it’s done.

This is the perfect example of the lack of alignment. the path to ROI is secured with a real partnership across all the business and IT stakeholders working together on a common goal.

This goal should be documented in the program vision and strategy document., which happens to be part of the first principle of COBITS, a business framework standard for the governance and management of enterprise IT.