Stakeholder Identification Overview and Challenges in Requirements Engineering Prospective

Stakeholder identification (SI) illustrates a critical part of the requirements elicitation activity. It helps software analysts gather accurate system requirements to ensure high quality and avoid system failure. Stakeholder identification considered one of the earliest stages of project development. The main problem related to project success and failure is identifying the real stakeholders and selecting the right one. The lack of stakeholder identification methodologies and the shortage of previous research in identifying the stakeholders for different systems, encourage the research to propose a guideline framework, assist analysts in building the convenient methodology for identifying real stakeholders. Stakeholders are defined based on different projects and the various services they provide. This difference leads to the fact that a particular and systematic technique must be used to identify stakeholders based on the project's types. The exploration of stakeholder identification matters and the guideline framework is a baseline for future research in requirements engineering.