Anyone with a stake in a system, whether an individual, a team, an organisation or a whole category of them.
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Terms in this definition
- Chat message roles
Labels on chat messages: instructions go under system, the person's input under user, the model's previous answers under assistant, and results returned by a called tool under tool (or function).
Related terms
- Azure DevOps security group
Groups like Readers, Contributors, Project Administrators and Project Collection Administrators that hand out permissions in Azure DevOps. Which features someone can use is decided separately by their access level: Stakeholder, Basic or Basic + Test Plans.
- Concern
Something about a system, such as its security, reliability or performance, that is important to at least one stakeholder.
- Organization Map
Shows business units, partners and stakeholder groups and how they work with one another, as opposed to the lines of reporting on an organisation chart.
- Stakeholder Map
Produced by the Stakeholder Management technique, it notes for every stakeholder their class, degree of involvement and concerns, and which views and artifacts are prepared for them.
- Test & Feedback extension
Helps with exploratory testing and collecting stakeholder feedback from a browser, recording notes, screenshots and videos and raising bugs or tasks. Its Firefox edition retires at the end of November 2026.
- Trade-off
Weighing competing goals, constraints and stakeholder interests to find the best result that can actually be achieved. Architects set out the options and what each means; the stakeholders choose.
- Value Stream
A complete chain of activities, from start to finish, that produces an overall outcome for a customer, an end user or another stakeholder.