All analysts must participate in a review of the Stage 1 report. All analysts must agree on its contents by consensus.
The Stage 1 report must then be presented to and discussed with the sponsor. The list of telecom services may contain unexpected services. The unexpected appearance of a service is informative, since it indicates that the risk assessment and preparation of the case organisation are insufficient, and that disaster response plans are incomplete.
The results of the Initiation and Preparation stage determine to a large extent the course of the risk assessment in the later stages. It is therefore important that the sponsor also agrees to the outcome of this stage, and gives formal agreement to the resulting documentation. As a consequence, the documents must be understandable to non-experts. A glossary may be helpful to that effect. Also, an executive summary should be written.