As mentioned, I have no real experience with stakeholders engagement, but there is one thing I can remember that comes close, and happened in my previous job, that was when I forgot to agree with the investigators who was going to be the main author of the publication and who else were going to be mentioned as author and in what order. I assumed wrongly that this was not going to be a problem, being all professionals. The moment the article was going to be published 5 out 9 of the investigators found that they should be mentioned first. But the real trouble started after I had to tell them that only 5 investigators could be mentioned as authors, as instructed by my manager.
All most likely could have been avoided when I, at the beginning of the trial, engaged with all the stakeholders (investigators) and came to an agreement of whom and what regarding authorship.
