Tom is managing a software development project in a large IT firm. According to the project essential requirements that involves several hard logic dependencies among activities, he wrote an email to one of the functional managers and requested some staff to be assigned to his project on a permanent basis for a $2-$week period. The functional manager rejected Tom$$s request, with some explanation. What would be the best course of action for Tom in this situation?

Group of answer choices

Negotiate with the functional manager

Raise the issue to higher$-$level managers who can decide on project priorities

Change the sequence of activities to cope with the resource limitations

Record this as a risk in the risk register