A business analyst (BA) has defined a business analysis approach and presented the documents to the sponsors, the senior executives, the domain experts, the project manager, and the head of technology, to obtain agreement from all. At this juncture, the project manager objected to some of the estimates determined in the budget and refused to agree with the estimates. Which guideline or tool, if followed by the BA, would have helped in avoiding such disagreements?
Stakeholder Engagement Approach: understanding stakeholders and stakeholder groups helps identify and assess the potential impact of internal and external forces. BABOK v.3 6.3.5 Assess Risks
For Plan Business Analysis Approach ... Stakeholder Engagement Approach is one of the G&T
"Stakeholder Engagement Approach is correct because this approach fosters transparency, communication, and collaboration, among stakeholders which can help prevent such disagreements and facilitate smoother project execution. (Refer BABOK v3 6.3.5) Risk Analysis and Management is not correct. It may help BA to deal with unpleasant situations in project execution when all other efforts to collaborate with stakeholders are done.
In my opinion the right answer is B - BA Performance and Assessment - which says to review the historical estimates.