Learn, Iterate, Do: My Stakeholder Interview Resource List

I wrote a blog post called, “Learn, Iterate, Do: Writing My First Stakeholder Interview Guide.” In it, I reference a list of resources I used to help me create my interview guide. This post has that list.

These really helped me, and might help someone else, too.

Internet:

1. “ The Back Up Question: Defining a Project’s ‘Good Enough’ ” by Jared Spool
2. “ Stakeholder Interview ‘Frontloading’ ” by Kevin Hoffman
3. “Better Stakeholder Interviews” by Christopher Cashdollar
4. UX Matters: “Conducting Successful Interviews With Project Stakeholders”
5. UX Apprentice: Stakeholder Interview Template
6. Adrian Howard’s Collection of Resources: Books to Get Your Customer Interviewing Practice Up and Running
7. Dan Brown: “The Delicate Art of Interviewing Stakeholders”

Books

1. “Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights” by Steve Portigal
2. “Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done” by Brett Harned
3. “Practical Design Discovery” by Dan Brown
4. “Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning (2nd Edition)” by Dan Brown ** (used for the analysis, too)
5. “Just Enough Research” by Erika Hall** (used for the analysis, too)
6. “Content Strategy for the Web” by Kristina Halvorson & Melissa Rauch
7. “The Digital Crown: Winning at Content on the Web” by Ahava Leibtag
8. “Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content” by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Are there other resources that helped you write a stakeholder interview guide and to conduct interviews? Leave a comment and let me know. I’d love to expand this list.