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wk5a The key to a successful collaboration is good communication. When a project

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The key to a successful collaboration is good communication. When a project starts, the PM should carefully devise a communications plan that will enable all major stakeholders to remain informed about the progress. Through this Application, you will be able to sample how much information needs to be prepared just to lay out a draft communications plan.

Consider a fictitious project in which you expect a team of five people to work on a system that tracks sexual offenders online. Your team must collaborate with the local police department to gain access to the web databases that store offender information. The team will also interact with a second in-house team that is working on porting the Google Maps application to a local server so that your company will not have to rely on Google

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sample progress report for the key stakeholders in the project:

The previous research, also conducted by Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor and Kimberly Mitchell, had found that victims in Internet-initiated sex crimes were primarily 13-15 year old teenage girls (75%) who met adult offenders (76% older than 25) in Internet chat rooms. The research involved a national survey of a stratified random sample of 2574 law enforcement agencies conducted between October 2001 and July 2002. Telephone interviews were conducted with local, State and federal law enforcement investigators concerning 129 sexual offences against juvenile victims that originated with online encounters. Most offenders did not deceive their victims about the fact that they were adults who were interested in sexual relationships. Most victims met and had sex with then adults on more than one occasion. Half of the victims were described as being in love with or feeling close bonds with the offenders. Almost all cases with male victims involved male offenders. Further, in all cases offenders used violence in 5% of the episodes.

The 2006 report also commented on the