The notion of Stakeholder in Requirements Engineering community.
Alejandro Oliveros · 2014
Stakeholders play an important role in software process to meet the goals of the development project. The software development process requires understanding the stakeholders and assuring their involvement. Stakeholders are a key source of information about the system under construction and are relevant protagonists in validation and prioritization processes. Independently of these characteristics we found inconsistences and contradictions in the use of the notion of stakeholders. Some authors consider stakeholders as individuals; others considerer they groups or individuals and others think stakeholders are individuals or organizations. Some authors consider individuals, groups or organizations as stakeholders; others admit as stakeholder a “thing ” or an interface.. In the literature the stakeholder notion includes different relationships with different entities of Software Product Life Cycle. A software project is a set of activities to produce a software system with certain constraints. It involves three key entities: project, product of the project and requirements of the software under construction. We found instances of the stakeholder notion related with one, two or all