Onion Model of Stakeholders (Share Profile)

[bioform]

I posted a discussion on the general board, had looks but no responses. So here it is over here....

I am trying to model more formalized stakeholder analysis process based on the taxonomy proposed by Ian F. Alexander.

Link to his white paper:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/consultancy/stakeholder_taxonomy/stakehold...

I have modeled the "onion layers/circles" as packages. Inside these packages I have the "Slot" packages. To add a new "Slot" within a circle would not require any changes to my stakeholder stereotype, just the adding of a new package.

When you drag and drop the stakeholder stereotype, you would then name it with a role applicable to the slot.

When you drag the stakeholder stereotype and drop as an "instance", then name the object with the name of the person it represents. I place these objects under their stakeholder (role), which is located under the slot, under the circle...

Additionally for now, I am exporting the root onion model package out as a CSV file, which is then linked to by the Stakeholder Metric presentation spreadsheet, until I have time to create a report via Add-In (for now not a bad way to prototype a solution.)

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi bioform,

Unfortunately, the

Link to his white paper:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/consultancy/stakeholder_taxonomy/stakehold...

is broken (as seems to be half of his site...).

Paolo

[mrf]

This link seemed to work for me:

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/consultancy/stakeholder_taxonomy/stakeholder_taxonomy.htm

[edit]If you check out the mozilla/ie status bar it appears that phpBB has truncated the OP and Paolo's URLs. Let me know if it did the same with this one.[/edit]

[Paolo F Cantoni]

This link seemed to work for me:

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/consultancy/stakeholder_taxonomy/stakeholder_taxonomy.htm

[edit]If you check out the mozilla/ie status bar it appears that Phebe has truncated the OP and Paolo's URLs. Let me know if it did the same with this one.[/edit]

Yes, I realized that, but when I went directly to the site, the links on the site failed...  Anyway, thanks Michael for providing the direct link...

Paolo

[«Midnight»]

Although it came up perfectly for me (using Firefox) the first time I tried it...

[bioform]

Hmm.. I am using IE7 from work, and I have no problems with any of the links on the site?

...http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/consultancy/stakeholder_taxonomy/stakeholder_taxonomy.htm...

Here is the address above for the paper, added the periods to avoid truncation? Another way to get there perhaps is to Google "Stakeholder Taxonomy"

Well worth reviewing some of the material on the site. BTW, one of my favorite books by this author is "Scenarios, Stores, Use Cases - through the Systems Development Life-Cycle." Concrete examples (by other authors) of how they used these approaches in projects from many different industries.

Has anyone used this taxonomy in identifying and doing stakeholder analysis of a project?

I have just started as the requirement lead of a large project system/software integration project that has just delivered the first release of the system. And due to any of a dozen reasons they were only able to use the Statement of Work (SOW) as the source of the "formal" requirements. The good news is that during the transition period, a lot of good work was done identifying and documenting the business processes.

I am currently spending my time (while I wait for clearance to complete) setting up the infra-structure and methodology to support reverse-engineering the existing requirements and modeling a baseline. During (and ongoing) that effort I will attempt to fill in the holes or at least identify the areas of risk that need additional analysis.

Previously I have identified/modeled stakeholders as stereotyped actors, modeled their goals and interests to protect (as separate stereotyped requirements) so that stakeholders that share a common need/interest can be traced to that element. These then are traced to the features/use cases and/or non-functional requirements.

I like the idea of this taxonomy and am trying to determine how I can best exploit it for this project and at an enterprise level (since this is a large scale integration and development effort)

Looking for comments, ideas, advice, or just "horror/success" stories that might help!

David

Side Note: Nice to post with you two again (Paolo & Midnight) I was away from this user id for a bit (long story)

[bioform]

Well, my Onion seems to be doing well! I have now "integrated (seeded?) this into my process for modeling the system's "Context" diagram within EA. Which also seems to be going well.

Context Diagrm thread: http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1233090102

So surely, there are some more Onion heads out there?!!  
and yes I will try to stop calling you Shirly)

If anyone is interested in seeing/discussing an example, please let me know,

David

[«Midnight»]

Hi David,

I've been lurking on this thread, but want to express my interest. The timing is a bit off though; I was just starting to read the book by Ian Alexander (the author of the onion paper) when the you started this thread.

Since several other things are distracting me while I am working my way through I've put off getting too involved, at least for the nonce.

I will get there though...

David

[bioform]

As always I look forward to and enjoy your thoughtful and concise comments!