The PPM results from stakeholder workshops that are scheduled through the life of a project to encourage brainstorming, strategizing, information gathering, and consensus building among stakeholders. Taking stock of the range of stakeholder identities, interests, biases, expectations, and concerns. In a corresponding objectives tree, the desired solutions are articulated, clustered and prioritized. A project strategy is created by understanding the range of means for meeting objectives. These conditions are necessary for successful transformation of problems into secured objectives.
Participants first review the variety of means available to achieve the project objective.
The project planning matrix shows activities and results as well as the conditions necessary for achieving both. These conditions are important assumptions on which rest decisions about activities, location, timing, procurement, and so on. In the workshops, participants analyze key issues throughout the project cycle. No set formula exists for a successful stakeholder workshop. In fact, each one is truly unique because it brings together a blend of people who have never before worked as a group and who need to create a common language to understand one another's widely divergent concerns.