As project manager, you will be managing a politically charged and expensive project. However, you anticipate that managers from around the company will try to use the project team for their own aims rather than focus on the goal of the project. Given this, who should charter the project?

A. The project manager B. The functional manager that is perceived to have the most power C. An entity that is at an organization level and that is appropriate for authorizing the project’s funding D. The primary customer affected by the project’s outcome