Priscilla Jacobs is a software development engineer at a cryptocurrency start$-$up$.$ She is getting nervous about being very late for her work tasks and causing a mission$-$critical initiative to have significant delays $-$ with a potential business impact. Because she took my course last year, she remembered to reach out to her project manager and ask for a potential extension on her assigned tasks. The PM assigned to the project lets her know that she has $1$ additional month to complete the task before the entire project is negatively impacted.

This is an example of a project manager evaluating the

within a project$/$task list and communicating this back to the stakeholder.

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