The woolong company produces high-end vacuum cleaners and has hired you to oversee the development and release of their latest product. a preliminary project initiation meeting will result in the identification of the project sponsor, selection of a project manager, and creation of the project charter. a manager in the production department who knows you are taking a college project management course asks you to prepare a report to them prepare for the meeting by answering the following questions:

discuss at least 4–5 different kinds of stakeholders.

how should they communicate to different stakeholders during the project?

what information should be shared with the project stakeholders?

what is the mechanism that could be used for each type of information?

Reliability and validity reliability and validity are two important considerations that must be made with any type of data collection. reliability refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result. in the context of psychological research, this would mean that any instruments or tools used to collect data do so in consistent, reproducible ways. unfortunately, being consistent in measurement does not necessarily mean that you have measured something correctly. to illustrate this concept, consider a kitchen scale that would be used to measure the weight of cereal that you eat in the morning. if the scale is not properly calibrated, it may consistently under- or overestimate the amount of cereal that’s being measured. while the scale is highly reliable in producing consistent results (e. g., the same amount of cereal poured onto the scale produces the same reading each time), those results are incorrect. this is where validity comes into play. validity refers to the extent to which a given instrument or tool accurately measures what it’s supposed to measure. while any valid measure is by necessity reliable, the reverse is not necessarily true. researchers strive to use instruments that are both highly reliable and valid.