Having worked as a project manager for nine years, you know how important it is to identify the critical stakeholders and not to overlook anyone who has a major influence on your project, even if you do not ever plan to meet with or talk with this individual. As you work with your team, you explain the key benefit of the Identify Stakeholder Process is that it—

a. Identifies the people, groups, or organizations that could impact or influence project decisions

b. Shows the interdependencies among project stakeholders to enable classification for how best to involve them on your project

c. Identifies the appropriate focus for each stakeholder or a group of stakeholders

d. Shows the potential impact each stakeholder has on project success