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| The purpose of this discipline is to: &nbsp;
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| Encourage stakeholder&nbsp;consensus on prioritizing the sequence of work
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| Stimulate team collaboration on creating long-term and short-term plans for the project.
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| </li>
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| Focus the team on continually delivering tested software for stakeholder evaluation
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| Help create an effective working environment to maximize team productivity
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| Keep stakeholders and the team informed of project progress
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| Provide a framework to manage project risk and continually adapt to change
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| Project Management is an umbrella discipline that impacts, and is impacted by, all other disciplines. Project
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| management activities add value to creating a high-performance work environment where:
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| stakeholders trust in the team's ability to successfully deliver value and understand the capabilities and
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| tradeoffs of the technical platform
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| Project team members understand stakeholder intentions and confirm that understanding by continually producing a
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| working software product for evaluation<br />
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