Jacob, an upper-level manager, recently saw a project fail because he did not establish objectives for all important organizational areas during the initial stages. jacob made a mistake during the stage of the management process.

Jacob made a mistake at the Initiation stage of the project management process  

Explanation:

The initiation stage is the first stage in every project cycle. It is the stage of defining the objectives, scope, purpose and  deliverable to be produced.

If this stage of project management had been well managed the project might not have failed because the employees would have been guided on the trends to follow to achieve the  various goal and objectives set for each projects.

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