Fictional product and launch case · Document 06
Stakeholder Register and Communication Plan
The PM identifies who must shape, review, approve and receive updates about the AegisShield Firewall product stage.
AegisShield Web Application Firewall · Week 1; updated through the stage
AegisShield, BookEasy, the people, findings and decisions are fictional and created for portfolio demonstration.
Stakeholder register
| Stakeholder | Interest and role | Key involvement |
|---|---|---|
| CTO / sponsor | Business value, risk and investment decision | Authorizes the stage, scope boundary and pilot-build decision |
| Product manager | Customer problem, product value and priorities | Leads discovery, scope and acceptance scenarios |
| Project manager | Coordination, visibility and decision flow | Maintains plan, risks, actions, decisions and escalations |
| Engineering lead | Technical feasibility and security-engine selection | Assesses options, estimates work and owns technical recommendations |
| Security lead | Rule safety, data protection and access control | Reviews protection limits, false-positive controls and evidence |
| Design lead | Administrator experience and usability | Creates and tests the setup, event and exception journey |
| Operations / SRE | Hosting, monitoring, support and recovery | Defines operational readiness and escalation |
| QA lead | Evidence and acceptance confidence | Plans validation, pilot checks and retest |
| BookEasy / Customer Success | Pilot value and customer continuity | Confirms scenarios, reviews the pilot and communicates customer impact |
Communication plan
| Audience | Information and channel | Cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsor | Written status, decisions, risks and gate recommendations | Weekly and at decision gates |
| Product and delivery team | Working meeting covering progress, dependencies and blockers | Twice weekly during definition |
| BookEasy and Customer Success | Pilot scenarios, expected impact, feedback and acceptance | At discovery, prototype review and pilot readiness |
| Security and Operations | Design, rule safety, data protection and readiness evidence | At design and readiness gates |
| Leadership / Finance | Simulated resource, licensing and operating-cost assumptions | When options and funding boundaries are reviewed |
Escalation rules
The PM escalates a material scope, customer-continuity, security, data-protection, licensing or schedule risk to the sponsor. Engineering or Security can stop a test or gate when the protection behavior is unsafe or evidence is incomplete.