[1] The project executive is supported by the roles of senior user on the customer side and senior supplier on the supplier side, respectively.
The tasks of the project executive involve securing funding, being responsible for the project delivering a product that achieves the goals that were set, and that this happens in a cost-conscious manner.
[2][3] The person must balance the requirements of the customer, the users and the supplier, and is responsible for the project justification (business case) throughout the project.
The person acts as responsible for the profitability or delegates this responsibility,[4] which often coincides with the project executive or senior user.
However, the term project owner is ambiguous, since it can refer to various different roles, such as the project sponsor, or a team including the sponsor, project champion and the owner's project manager, or simply the customer.