As far from Darth as possible...

Its odd but I have been thinking about this...I think it would be (relatively) easy to do the analysis as you only have one (what I call and what actually is in this case!) killer stakeholder. A killer stakeholder being defined as an individual who has the authority to stop a project dead.

A large degree of complixity for us BAs comes about from decisions made by committees of killer stakeholders and here we wouldn't have that problem - although we would have to convince Darth that he is only a representative for the real killer stakeholder and it is he would have to engage with. BAs always end up on the dark side!

I wonder if any research has been done that correlates projects that are successful to the number of killer stakeholders involved. My prediction would be that the fewer killer stakeholders (minimum 1 though), the greater the liklihood of success.

So my theory is that BAs probably do their best work under project dictatorships?

I would be interested in anyone's experience of this in the real world (or a galaxy very near here anyway).

Guy