From the textbook called \"Information Technology Project Management: Providing

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From the textbook called "Information Technology Project Management:

Providing Measurable Organizational Value".

1. What is a stakeholder?

2.    How does conducting a stakeholder analysis help the project manager and project team understand the informal organization?

3.    Why should a project manager be concerned with monitoring a project’s progress?

4.    What is the purpose of developing a project communication plan?

5.    What are project metrics?

6.    Describe the qualities of a good project metric.

7. Define the following: (a) Quality planning; (b) quality assurance; (c) quality control.

8.    What is a control chart? When is a process said to be in statistical control? How would you know if it was not?

Explanation / Answer

1. A stakeholder is any person that is either involved in the project, or is affected by it. For example, the developers, planners, managers and customers are all stakeholders.
2. Identifying stakeholders is very important. This is because once you analyse who is involved and who is affected by the project, your use case for the proect becomes sharp. With this, the project managers can identify how big the market impact of a project can be, and the team can understand the scale of the project.
3. A manager should be concerned with managing a project's progress because he is the one responsible for setting deadlines and making sure that products are delivered on time. Also, if the managers take interests in the projects, the developers also feel like the project is important to the organization. This ensures a better quality result.

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