4 Some (even relatively experienced) project managers neglect stakeholders in the project management process, preferring to ‘manage them at a distance’, rather than allow them to interfere with the project. Others argue that the benefits of stakeholder management are too great to ignore. It has been suggested that emphasising the responsibilities, as well as the rights, of project stakeholders can moderate many of the risks of stakeholder involvement. If you were in charge of drawing up a general list of the rights and responsibilities of project stakeholders in an information technology company, what would you include?