Check out What Makes A Good Stakeholder? by 3Back. Here is an excerpt:
Stakeholders[1] are the reason we develop Product[2] in the first place. Stakeholders are those people that have needs, wants, and desires. (In an IT setting, these may be referred to as desirements, a processing task or type of output that is desired, but not absolutely necessary.) As a Scrum…
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