June 2023
Beginner
403 pages
11h 38m
English
Stakeholders are people and groups with an interest in a project’s outcome. Internally, they may be product folks, the legal team, engineering teams, or any other business unit. Stakeholders can also be external to the company, in the form of users, customers, vendors, regulatory bodies, and others.
The best time to figure out the key stakeholders in your project is as soon as possible. The worst time is when you are ready to ship, as an important-enough person could then appear seemingly from nowhere and take a proper look at your project for the first time, and declare major changes are needed. In this case, it would have been better to consult this key stakeholder earlier.
In this chapter, we cover ...
