The management role that provides the corporate goal and budget for the project being considered Executive sponsors are typically directors, department heads or vice- presidents, and they operate from a project review or screening board during project selection
An executive-level manager who interacts with the project team leader and acts as liaison with other executive staff members in taking high-level responsibility to champion, guide, and monitor a given project
The person or group who has final authority over project wide decisions This person or group should be responsible for committing to a feature set, approving the user interface design, and deciding whether the software is ready to release to its users or customers If the decision-making authority is a group, each person in the group should represent a different interest - management, marketing, development, quality assurance, and so on Sometimes this group is the Change Board