The key to a successful collaboration is good communication. When aproject starts, the PM should carefully devise a communications planthat will enable all major stakeholders to remain informed about theprogress. Through this Application, you will be able to sample how muchinformation needs to be prepared just to lay out a draft communicationsplan.

Consider a fictitious project in which you expect ateam of five people to work on a system that tracks sexual offendersonline. Your team must collaborate with the local police department togain access to the web databases that store offender information. Theteam will also interact with a second in-house team that is working onporting the Google Maps application to a local server so that yourcompany will not have to rely on Google’s servers.

Now, complete the following:

1. Create the necessary documentation for a mockmeeting for the project. You can refer to the section "Running EffectiveMeetings" in Chapter 10 of the course text, Information Technology Project Management.
2. Create a sample progress report for the keystakeholders in the project. For a sample of a progress report, refer toTable 10-3 in Chapter 10 of the course text, Information Technology Project Management.
3. Draft a communications plan for the project.

Submit a 3- to 4-page report in APA style that contains your responses.