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“Managing an IT project is like juggling chunks of Jell-O: It’s neither easy nor pretty.” So it says in an excellent article on IT Project Management is CIO magazine. The article goes on to say, very accurately I think, that “Information technology is especially slippery because it’s always moving, changing, adapting and challenging business as we know it.”

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Requirements are a great challenge in project management. Clarity as to requirements is absolutely necessary in order for a project to succeed. Most projects succeed or fail at the beginning of the project based upon the quality of the project requirements. One of the challenges for the Project Manager is to assess and understand the uniqueness of the requirements gathering process for his/her individual project, which includes both Requirements Definition and Requirements Management.

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A project manager has many responsibilities. However, stakeholder management sits near the top of the list, as it is intertwined with all the rest, especially scope and risk management.

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