Stakeholders and Related Projects

As stated earlier in this book, stakeholders are a critical factor in the eXtreme project management model.

What Is a Stakeholder?

A stakeholder is a person, group, or organization outside your direct control that is involved with your project. Most stakeholders will provide services (requirements, expertise, equipment, etc.) to your project, receive services (data, functions, etc.), or have a two-way relationship.

Stakeholders can be either inside the organization or in another organization. Typical project stakeholders will be IT operations, internal auditing, the organization's business people who will be using the system, IT communications, vendors, project team members, members of the steering committee, ...

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