Agent skill · product strategy · deanpeters
stakeholder-identification
Map every stakeholder before engaging anyone. Use when launching an initiative, scoping discovery, or building an engagement plan from scratch.
Why this skill is useful
Provides a structured approach to stakeholder identification that incorporates equity considerations and categorization methods not commonly found in standard practices.
What it needs
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What this skill does
Stakeholder Identification Purpose Map every stakeholder before engaging anyone. This skill produces a comprehensive, equity-aware stakeholder set — not just the obvious sponsors and users, but the gatekeepers, the impacted communities, and the voices your team defaults to overlooking. Most PM stakeholder lists are written from memory in five minutes. They reliably capture executives, product peers, and the most vocal users. They reliably miss the marginalized user groups who bear the product's consequences without having the organizational power to shape its decisions. This skill forces a slower, more structured brainstorm that builds the foundation for every engagement decision that follows. Use this before stakeholder-mapping (which prioritizes) and before stakeholder-engagement-advisor (which plans per-stakeholder outreach). Identification comes first — you cannot prioritize people you haven't named. Input Works best with: The initiative, product, or decision you're mapping stakeholders for. Also useful: Stakeholders already on your list (the skill's job is to find who's missing), org context, and affected communities. Anything supplied with the invocation itself — text after the skill name, a pasted context dump, or an appended ARGUMENTS: line — counts as answers already given. Use it and skip whatever it covers; don't re-ask. Arriving empty-handed? That works too. The skill asks what the initiative is and who it touches, then runs the equity-aware sweep. Example invocation: Identify stakeholders for migrating all customers to the new billing system by Q4. Key Concepts Allies, Audiences, Influencers — The three categories that clarify stakeholder relationship to your work. Allies actively support the initiative; audiences are impacted by it; influencers shape opinion or decisions without being directly affected. Sorting stakeholders this way reveals who to recruit, who to inform, and who to persuade — three different engagement jobs. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills deanpeters/stakeholder-identification