A person, group, or organization actively involved in a project, is affected by its process or outcome, or can influence its process or outcome.

This could be customers who use a system, or software developers who develop a system.

Developer Side Stakeholders

This includes:

  • Software developers
  • User interface designers
  • QA engineers
  • Release engineers
  • Operators
  • Operators
  • Maintenance engineers
  • Managers

Different stake holders have different concerns that may be incompatible.