Assume you are the project manager for a software company and your team is in ch

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Assume you are the project manager for a software company and your team is in charge of delivering an update to tax preparation software for the next tax season. The project team has ten software developers working together, but located across the country. You have the following information about the project, and need to provide a status to the sponsors. Please write a one page status report to the sponsors in APA format, providing a clear indication of status of the project. (Suggestion: Red, Yellow, or Green for status). The sponsors also like to only know the two most important risks, and what could be done to mitigate the risk if it happens. The conclusion of the status report must describe any requests for additional resources, if they are necessary. New items you learned this month about the project: There is a three day weekend in the coming month. Nine of the developers are on track to finish their tasks 2 weeks early. One software developer took the recently announced

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This might be helpful: As of now, the project is going according to plan. We are currently in the process of updating the tax software for the next tax season. We have ten developers working on it; however they are located across country; this may seem a little bit disadvantageous, but it is not because they can communicate with each other over the internet. There are some important things that I need to take consideration of. There is a three day weekend coming this month and I need to make sure that this will not influence the amount of work that needs to be done for the project. The project stands well because 9 of the 10 developers consider they will finish the task two weeks earlier, while one of the (who intends to leave the company after finishing the project) will also finish before the due date. The fact that we are still under budget with costs and that the developers are ahead with the work is a good thing. There are two important aspects that need to be considered. The first one is that we have three developers located in Florida and there is hurricane season over there. We need to assess the possibility that they will not be able to complete their work on time and that their tasks would need to be assigned to other developers. We might not be able to communicate with them if the weather gets ugly.

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