Stakeholder

A person involved with the development, management, or use of a solution

Anyone involved with a solution directly or indirectly can be a stakeholder.

Stakeholder Examples

Business stakeholders typically work for the organization and include:

  • Domain or subject matter experts

  • End users or their representatives

  • Project sponsor or product owner

Project stakeholders assume the following solution development roles:

  • Business analyst

  • Architect

  • User experience designer

  • Developers

  • Testing (quality assurance)

  • Project manager

  • Operations support, such as DevOps

Third-party stakeholders work outside the organization and include:

  • Vendors of products or services related to the solution

  • Regulators

Stakeholder References

  • Motivated stakeholders thoroughly cover the scope of a solution with meaningful requirements, resulting in a customer happy with the solution.
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  • Getting the Solution Right

    Business analysts act as diplomats between stakeholders and the development team on a mission to build a solution right the first time.
    Article

  • Heroic Stakeholders Achieve Goals

    The secret to getting the information you need from your stakeholders is to follow the same rule good marketing specialists use: if you want customers to buy, you must tell a story where the customer is the hero—not you.
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