What is a stakeholder?
Options
- Anyone affected by or interested in the project (Correct option)
- Only the person who owns the project servers
- A wooden post that is used to mark a place
- The compiler that builds the project's code
Answer
Anyone affected by or interested in the project: users, customers, managers, other teams
Why
Stakeholders are the people who care about the result or are impacted by it. Their needs sometimes conflict.
In interview stories (for example 'a difficult stakeholder'), show that you listened, explained technical limits in plain words, and found a solution that served the real need.
Remember
Stakeholder = anyone with an interest in the outcome.