Number of Communication Channels in Project Management: Calculation, Formula, and Examples

How Many Communication Channels Are in a Project with 28 Stakeholders?

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Della works as a project manager for Tech Perfect Inc.

She is studying the documentation of planning of a project.

The documentation states that there are twenty- eight stakeholders with the project.

What will be the number of communication channels for the project?

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According to the twenty- eight stakeholders.

Communication channels are paths of communication with stakeholders in a project.

The number of communication channels shows the complexity of a project's communication and can be derived through the formula shown below: Total Number of Communication Channels = n (n-1)/2 where n is the number of stakeholders.

Hence, a project having five stakeholders will have ten communication channels.

Putting the value of the number of stakeholders in the formula will provide the number of communication channels.

Putting the value of the number of stakeholders in the formula will provide the number of communication channels: Number of communication channel = (n (n-1)) / 2 = (28 (28-1)) / 2 = (28 x 27) / 2 = 756 / 2 = 378

The formula for calculating the number of communication channels in a project is:

n(n-1)/2

Where n represents the number of stakeholders involved in the project.

In this case, the documentation states that there are 28 stakeholders in the project.

Therefore, we can substitute the value of n in the formula to find out the number of communication channels:

28(28-1)/2 = 378

So the answer is C. 378.