Key stakeholders/PMP

Key stakeholders on every project include: 

a)Project manager -  person responsible for managing the project. 

b)Customer/user -  person or organization that will use the project’s product. There may be multiple layers of customers. 

c)Performing organization  - enterprise whose employees are most directly involved in doing the work of the project. 

d)Project team members -  group that is performing the work of the project. 

e)Project management team - members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities. 

f)Sponsor -  person or group that provides the financial resources, in cash or in kind, for the project. 

g)Influencers -  People or groups that are not directly related to the acquisition or use of the project’s product, but due to an individual’s position in the customer organization or performing organization, can influence, positively or negatively, the course of the project.

h)PMO - If it exists in the performing organization, the PMO can be a stakeholder if it has direct or indirect responsibility for the outcome of the project.