A business analyst (BA) is tasked with developing a business analysis plan and must decide the best approach to use. Which of the following factors would drive the decision towards an adaptive approac

Significant challenges in engaging stakeholders would undermine an adaptive approach, since adaptive methods depend on frequent and close stakeholder collaboration and feedback throughout the project.

When the risk of an incorrect implementation is unacceptably high, an adaptive approach is selected because it delivers work in short iterations with continuous stakeholder feedback, allowing errors and misalignments to be detected and corrected early before significant investment is made. Each iteration acts as a validation checkpoint that reduces the cumulative risk of a fully incorrect final product. This is a primary driver for choosing adaptive over predictive planning.

When requirements can be fully defined ahead of implementation, a predictive approach is more suitable and efficient because the scope is stable enough to plan comprehensively upfront.

High organizational tolerance for uncertainty does not drive the selection of adaptive planning - it is the actual presence of requirement uncertainty and the need to manage change that motivates the choice.