Stakeholders

Key SAFe stakeholders accountable for business outcomes, ROI, and governance of the ART.

Business Owners (typically 3–5) assign business value to PI Objectives, participate in PI Planning, and make go/no-go decisions at System Demos and Inspect & Adapt. The concept exists informally elsewhere (as "stakeholders") but with far less formal authority.

Across the Frameworks

Scrum
Informal
Stakeholders

Invited to Sprint Review; not a defined role.

SAFe
Native
Business Owners

Formal role with PI governance authority.

LeSS
Informal
Stakeholders

Participate in Sprint Review; not a named role.

Nexus
Informal
Stakeholders

Similar to Scrum.

Related Terms

Present in Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Nexus.