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title: Identify the high-level decision maker(s)
acode: A1
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This is the first management activity in the *Project Initiation* activity group, which is a group for creating a foundation for the project and deciding whether you will execute it.

It must be made clear who will make the high-level decisions such as the *go/no-go* ones ([A6](../../a/6/) and [C3](../../c/3/)). The choice depends on whether the organization is larger than the project team:

* **If there's no larger organization (it's a micro-organization),** then the whole team, or a subset of it, would be responsible for the high-level decisions. Remember that it must be clear to everyone who these people are.
* **If there's a larger organization,** a single person who has high organizational power and is not one of the normal team members should be the project *sponsor*, responsible for making high-level decisions and providing resources for the project. When more than one person needs to be involved in high-level decisions, it is the responsibility of the sponsor to make the arrangements, and the team members will only work with the sponsor rather than all the decision makers.

