## 6.2 Stakeholders Project stakeholders are **people (or groups)** who can **affect or can be affected** **by both the activities performed during the life of a project, or/and by the project’s output and outcome**. Stakeholders ==can be directly involved in a project’s work== or be members of other **internal or external organisations** (e.g. contractors, suppliers, users or the general public). Depending on the complexity and scope of a project there may be **few or many stakeholders**. However, their effective involvement is a crucial success factor.