Stakeholder	Person or role with power over and/or interest in work to be done or its deliverables. “A person who has a key role in, or concerns about, the system; can be individual, team, or organization, or class thereof.” (extract from ANSI 1471)
Sponsor	A stakeholder who is willing to apportion money or other resources to some work.
Concern	A general kind of requirement. E,g, availability, usability. “A key interest, crucially important to the stakeholders in the system, that determines the acceptability of the system.” (extract from ANSI 1471) Several concerns may be addressed in one architecture view.
Architect stakeholder	Enterprise and solution architecture stakeholders include: · Owners: business and IT board members, customers. · Managers: programme/project/change managers. · Buyers: procurement/acquisition organisation. · Suppliers: service and product providers. · Designers, Builders, Testers: other project team members: · Users: representatives and domain experts. · Operators and Maintainers: IT Services Management.
Stakeholder management	A technique based on analysis of stakeholders’ positions in a power/interest grid.