Question: Calculating communication channels

Submitted by cplusplus on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 10:57

Calculating communication channels n(n-1)/2

Does "n" represents both stake holders and team members?

or just stake holders?

you can have 5 team members working on this project / 10 stakeholders.

Thank you all for the helpful info.

 

 

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pkukilla

Tue, 03/02/2010 - 12:24

Stakeholders-  The persons or organisation or public that are impacted by the project.

 So in the formula N(N-1)/2 you need to consider N as stake holder.

In the example provided by you " can have 5 team members working on this project / 10 stakeholders. "

5 team members (stakeholders)+ other 5 stakeholders = 10 stakeholders

 No of Communication channel = 10*9/2 = 45.

 

akasula

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 06:13

We need to consider N as a stake holder and it is 10 in this case.  Communication channels has nothing to do with the team members working n the project.  Finally the answer 45 that 'pkukilla' arrived at is right, assuming that there are 10 stakeholders.

Detailed explanation of why this is so:

Say there are 2 stakeholders in your project.  It means that there is 1 communication channel between them, as they need to interact between themselves, to see that their needs go in together.  So the formula N(N-1)/2 comes to 2(2-1)/2 = 1.  Similarly if we take 3 stake holders A, B, C....there would be communications between A,B  A,C  B,C  which is 3 in count and matches with 3(3-1)/2=3.  We do not consider communication B,A as the channel is the same as in A,B

 

PMP Fox

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 19:06

PM must be included. So +1

Exam question is about how many channels added or removed indirect question.

Or

Direct

projmanpro

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 06:18

N just represents the TOTAL POPULATION (OR PERSONS) INVOLVED OR SPECIFICIED IN THE COMMUNICATION PROCESS, REGARDLESS IF HE IS A STAKEHOLDER, TEAM MEMBER, ETC. PROVIDED MENTIONED AND SPECIFIED.

mucool

Thu, 05/03/2012 - 00:22

this can be tricky since, we never consider the PM as part of the communication channel..In certain questions we need to add the PM in the calculation..read the question wording carefully..

sspawar

Thu, 05/03/2012 - 05:43

You are right Dude !


but many framed question I saw options does have choice to include self (PM), in that case leaving self or PM - answer has to be marked.


Regards

vanya07

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 08:25

50 communication channels how many stake holders calculate

PMP Fox

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 19:04

10.5124929