During your project$$s planning phase, you found that stakeholders insisted that their conflicting requirements be considered and consolidated. That made it hard to come up with a plan that satisfies all requirements. What is probably the most helpful step to ensure common understanding?

Use your authorization and position as the project manager to choose which objectives to prioritize.

Build focus groups involving concerned stakeholders to discuss and resolve conflicting interests.

Create a document explaining your point of view in detail and ask conflicting stakeholders to review it$.$

Give each stakeholder the opportunity to write a statement of work, and then merge all documents to create the project scope statement.