Consider the scenario that you are a project manager employed by the department of home affairs. The rollout of the new card identification that replaces the old ID book has become an urgent requirement due to the spike in fraudulent IDs. Your director has assigned the project to you to manage. Analyse the following questions and develop your response to each one by clearly showing how you will manage the project using sound project management principles.

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Project managers and their teams need to be able to assuage the concerns of their customers, sustain support for the project at higher levels of the organisation, quickly identify problems that threaten project work, while at the same time defend the integrity of the project and the interests of the project participants (Larson and Gray, 2017:343). Critically discuss how you plan to build a relationship with your stakeholders. Include in your discussion the activities that you will use to build the relationship.