You Are the Project Manager of a Multi-National Project with Stakeholders

question 21

Essay

You are the project manager of a multi-national project with stakeholders and team members on both sides of the Atlantic.You receive an email request from a stakeholder in the United Kingdom for information that is "needed by 4 / 3 / 14".You run into the stakeholder at a conference in the middle of March 2014 and he refuses to acknowledge you in any way.To what do you attribute this "weird" behavior?

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Definitions:

Uniform Distribution

A distribution of probabilities where each possible outcome is equally probable.

Waiting Time

The time period a person or object spends waiting to receive a service or undergo a process.

Uniform Distribution

A type of probability distribution in which every event has an equally likely chance of occurring within a specified range.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood that a given event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.