Top BA skill — Stakeholder management: how to turn difficult stakeholders into allies

Obi Nwokedi
Analyst’s corner
Published in
5 min readMar 18, 2023

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drawing of angry stakeholders

Before I start, it’s important to first understand that while you may encounter a few really difficult people, most are just temporarily difficult and as soon as their issues are managed, it all becomes easier. When you think about it, it’s all a bit more of ‘expectation management’. Ideally I‘d rather call this stakeholder engagement, with…

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Obi Nwokedi
Analyst’s corner

UK based Business Analyst Consultant. Agile advocate with an interest in product development. Let’s Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obinwokedi/