Stakeholders

What a stakeholder is

In AIPM, a stakeholder is any person or role with a stake in the project's outcome. Typical stakeholders include:

• Sponsor — the person who authorizes the project and holds gate-approval authority.
• Operator — whoever runs the work day to day.
• End user — the people who will use what the project produces.
• Reviewer — anyone who checks or signs off on deliverables.

AIPM tracks all of them in one place so nobody with an interest in the project is overlooked.

The stakeholder register

Each project has a stakeholder register — a PMBOK initiation/planning deliverable. For every stakeholder it captures:

• Who the stakeholder is (the person or role).
• Their role or interest — why they care about the project.
• Their engagement level — how closely they are involved.

The register is one of the standard artifacts a project produces early on. The deeper PMBOK reference for this deliverable lives under the stakeholder-register guideline.

Draft → review → approve

The stakeholder register follows AIPM's normal lifecycle:

• Draft — an agent or operator writes the initial register.
• Review — a checker examines it for accuracy and completeness.
• Approve — it is signed off through evidence-based approval.

This is the same maker → checker → approver discipline AIPM applies to every deliverable. See Approving with Evidence for how sign-off works.

Stakeholders and phase gates

The stakeholder register is part of the artifact bundle that a project's Initiating phase gate is checked against. A phase gate cannot be signed off until its required artifacts — including the stakeholder register, where applicable — are complete. See Phase Gates for how gates are evaluated.

The sponsor

Every project has a sponsor, a special stakeholder who holds gate-approval authority. The sponsor is the approver for phase-gate sign-offs. Creating a project sets up its sponsor — see Managing Projects.

Working with the register in the UI

From the project, open the stakeholder register to:

• Create and edit entries for each stakeholder.
• Record their role, interest, and engagement level.
• Drive the register through draft, review, and approval.