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
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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.
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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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