Your project is not successful if your stakeholders are not happy. Stakeholder satisfaction is essential for successful project completion.

According to the PMBOK Guide, “A stakeholder can be a person, a group, or an organization that may be affected, or have any interest in the project, or the project’s outcome; either directly or indirectly.”

What is a Stakeholder Register?
A stakeholder register is a project document that has information about the project stakeholders. It identifies the people, groups, and organizations that have any interest in the work and the outcome.

Your project’s success depends on the satisfaction of your stakeholders. Sometimes, you have completed the project; the client has accepted all deliverables. However, the project is not successful because some of your stakeholders are not happy.

Stakeholder satisfaction is the sign of successful project completion.

Now, you might be wondering who the stakeholders are and whom you have to satisfy for the successful completion of your project.

I am writing this blog post to answer these queries, and I hope to clear up any doubts you may have about project stakeholders

Projects occur to fulfill the stakeholders’ requirements. If they are not happy, you cannot say that your project was a success. Project management is about managing stakeholders.

You want to complete your project with minimal obstruction. So, you must identify your project stakeholders at an early stage, and then engage with them throughout the project life-cycle.

You start the process of identifying stakeholders after the sponsor signs the project charter.