All persons who have an interest in the output of the projects, can contribute or have dependencies on the projects.

• Stakeholders of the projects,
• sponsors,
• supporting functions
• the POT’s of the projects
• Line managers
• representatives of the teams

The multi-project stage planning paves the way for the smoothest possible implementation. Even if it doesn’t work everywhere: Identifying obstacles as early as possible helps.

• List of risks, risk containment measures
• Dependencies between projects
• Priority decisions
• expected delivery results of the stage
• and very important: the people involved know and trust each other.