8. Prepare for stakeholder engagement. First, summarise the organisational requirements for stakeholder engagement, document stakeholder communication needs, identify communication interfaces among constituent projects and plan for knowledge sharing. Also use analytical techniques to generate and evaluate solutions to manage the competing demand(s) of the stakeholders across the projects in the program. Next, investigate the interests and expectations of key stakeholders for making program decisions. First plan your investigations by completing the relevant table in the Project Portfolio. You must investigate the interests and expectations of internal stakeholders and external stakeholders separately using an informal communication method on both occasions. You must communicate with at least one internal stakeholder and one external stakeholder