Sudan e-passport / Ravinder Singh / 1000819822
1).Based on the article , there was a group of external stakeholders (relate to politics) involved in the Sudan e-passport project. How did their needs and expectations affect the overall project management success?

The group of external stakeholders are MOI and Kushite, both of this external stakeholders affect overall project management success of Sudan e-passport project because they are ongoing to negotiate to many things with suppliers, and HJP provide training to MOI and Kushite.
MOI and Kushite also take care about their internal work packages such as:
- Business process re-engineering .
- Site security management system.
- Logistics such as: 1. Stock management
2. Secure storage and transport of blank booklets.
- Personnel.
- Quality assurance processes .
- Procurement contract .
So they are all that affect overall project management success.

4). In your opinion, how did the project manager able to produce the results as listed in the success factors? Relate each success factor to the project management process groups.

In my Opinion the project manager able to produce the success result because they did the project step by step from initiation activities to planning activities, executing activities, monitoring ,controlling activities and closing activities in a proper way.
From the article we knew that these are the success factors :
· Capacity building with the issuers personnel resulted in sound understanding of thecomplexity of the system
· Local project manager with an international background was able to manage the project cross cultural boundaries
· Suppliers communicated well between each other
· Intensive involvement of the Senior Executives of Kushite and Senior Officers of the MOI

Looking more detail to each phase of HJP project:

Initiating processes include defining and authorizing a project. This is one of most important foundation to start the project ,the company must know what there are doing in details and they must know what the company personnel are doing. This process related to the first factor (Capacity building with the issuers personnel resulted in sound understanding of thecomplexity of the system).

Planning process include devising and maintaining a workable scheme to ensure that the project addresses the organization’s needs. In these process we can see that HJP has their planed example qualification planning ,system integration test planning.

Executing processes include coordinating people and other resources to carry out the various plans.This phase relate to the second factor (Local project manager with an international background was able to manage the project cross cultural boundaries). In this phase we can see and example that HJP provides training to MOI and Kushite.

Monitoring and controlling processes include regularly measuring and monitoring progress progress to ensure that the project team meets the project objectives.This process relate to third factor(Suppliers have to communicate well to identify the change and keep the project on track). In this phase the project stakeholders can identify any necessary change that may be required to keep the project on track, and this phase can be seen when MOI and kushite take care about HJP internal work packages to maintain their workers.

Closing process include formalizing acceptance of the project and ending it efficiently. this phase relate to last factor (Intensive involvement of the Senior Executives of Kushite and Senior Officers of the MOI). This can be seen because there still wil be intensive relation between HJP and external stakeholders.