Gary is the business analyst for his organization. He has realized that he has overlooked a key group of stakeholders during the conduct stakeholder analysis process. What is the danger in…

There is no standard business analysis practice requiring newly identified stakeholders to pay for requirements they add; this is not a recognized consequence of late stakeholder identification.

While newly identified stakeholders may need onboarding time, this is a minor logistical concern and not the primary danger from a requirements and scope management perspective.

Excluding stakeholders from decisions is a governance concern, but the more critical BA danger is that their unidentified requirements can drive unplanned scope additions rather than just a governance gap.

When key stakeholders are identified late, they may surface requirements that were never accounted for in the original project plan, forcing unplanned additions to scope, schedule, and budget. This is the primary business analysis risk of incomplete stakeholder identification - scope creep driven by unidentified needs. The later in the project these stakeholders are discovered, the more costly and disruptive the resulting changes become.