Q. How important are the stakeholders?

The most significant stakeholder of course is your client or customer. Conversely that perhaps in excess of one person that the sponsor and the user for example. However there can as well be many other stakeholders as in the case of environmentally sensitive or publicly exposed projects. Such situations need special management attention. Even in an easy project such as introducing an administrative change there will probably be people who are indirectly affected and who should be considered.