

Stakeholder Examples
Can you give me examples of stakeholders, especially ones I should not overlook?
Core stakeholder
Some key stakeholders you should consider
· The project management team
· You, as project manager or team leader
· And your immediate support staff
· Upper management
· The people to whom you report directly
· Support departments
· Those in other departments of your company
· Who will be contributing to the project
· Or affected by it !
Director, sponsor, customer
· The project sponsor, or project director
· Essentially the person who controls the project's budget funding
· And gives overall project direction and approvals
· And seeing that the benefits from the project's product are realized !
· The customer
· Who may or may not be the same as the sponsor
· And who may or may note be the end user
End users and their associates
· End users
· The people to whom you will hand over the product
· And who will actually use it when delivered
· Peer managers
· Those responsible for associated systems
· With which the product must interact
· And be compatible
Contractors and vendors
· Contractors
· Who will be providing services to the project
· And have a legitimate profit motive
· In participating in a well-run project
· Vendors
· Who will be providing goods for the project
· And will be looking for repeat business
The opposition
· Competitors or the disenfranchised
· Those who will no longer be required
· If the project is to improve productivity
· And have a vested interest in seeing the project fail
· For whatever reason!