Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
A stakeholder is anybody (and this includes groups and organizations) who is related to the project, either actively influencing the project (and this includes the project outputs and activities) or inactively being influenced by the project.
While you might really have at look at anybody in identifying stakeholders, you will have to focus on some key stakeholders later. You find out who key stakeholders are while analysing the identified stakeholders.
Examples, true for most projects:
- The project manager is a stakeholder
- The project sponsor is a stakeholder
- The project team members are stakeholders, maybe treated as a group
- The steering committee is a stakeholder organization
- The project users are stakeholders, probably treated as a group
- Any compliance regulation body might be a stakeholder organization (if they can review your project)
- The public might be a stakeholder group
Hope that helps. It is a basic concept for project management.
have some query -
In a project there are so many process Areas involved and deliverable involved, Each and every stage there are some human entity involved associated with the input / process / outcome of the deliverable , so does it imply that Stakeholders are only the human aspect / entity . For e.g the quality of a product - Quality is never considered as a stakeholder entity but only the person(S) of group of persons involved / affected are only considered. Is this understanding correct for stakeholders. Saving Changes...
not sure of the below scenario
In the case of a Dairy products business project, by any chance will the livestock's - qualify to be considered as a stakeholder -- even though we know that the source of milk is from the livestock , but it is not a human entity -- so is my question on the basic definition and understanding. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Perhaps this helps: http://www.projectmanagement.com/blog/How-...nalysis/19547/. Sorry because it is something I have written, but it was well accepted inside the PM and BA community and was published inside some publications as method to be taking into account. I hope it helps. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
As far as I know, a stakeholder must be a person. You may also consider an organization as a stakeholder, but even in that case a list of organization's representative/s must be included. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
According to PMBoK, stakeholders can be individuals, groups or organizations.
A Quality department would qualify as an organization, as you do not have to care so much about individuals but about their mission.
Looking at stakeholders is managing the powers in your project. Saving Changes...
In a scenario for eg: Health care services , Patient is a stakeholder. In case due to surgical reasons or other valid reason if the patient passes away (dies) - does the patient still qualified to be considered as a stakeholder as per our PMBOK / other definitions / understandings. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Interesting scenario. The patient was a stakeholder when he was alive and thats why you treated him/her in the stakeholder analysis, probably as a key stakeholder. He/she changes interest and power for the project by dying and you might re-assess his/her importance. But I would keep him/her on the register.
If police or family comes and want to understand the reason for his&her death, they get more importance as maybe new key stakeholders. Saving Changes...
Hau Doan HuuAsst CEO in IT and DX, cum DCIO| Vietnam PostHanoi, Hanoi, Viet Nam
I agree with Sergio and Thomas.
@Lakshminarayanan: Keep it as simple as possible or you will get stuck with your own messy Saving Changes...
