The business analyst (BA) is not having great success scheduling stakeholder meetings. Stakeholders say they are too busy or there are higher priority meetings on their calendars. The BA is concerned,

Test execution is driven primarily by the test team and depends on system readiness and test case completion, not on stakeholder meeting availability.

The approval process is wholly dependent on stakeholder participation, as stakeholders must review, provide feedback on, and formally sign off on requirements and project deliverables. When stakeholders are unavailable or disengaged, approvals stall, creating a bottleneck that compounds delivery delays beyond simple scheduling issues.

Requirements reuse is a future-oriented activity tied to documentation quality and repository management, not a primary outcome impacted by current stakeholder engagement.

Risk analysis is one collaborative activity stakeholders contribute to, but it is not the ongoing process most directly bottlenecked by sustained stakeholder unavailability throughout the project.