This summative assessment has two parts. Part 1 is to be completed in Week 1, and Part 2 is to be completed in Week 2.

See steps that follow in six to seven hundred words.

Innovative Automotive is an automobile accessories company that has been in business for 15 years. The company's director of research and development (R&D) has been asked by the president to develop a new product: an after-market accessory that attaches to any windshield wiper and helps solve the problem of removing bugs from the front windshield.

This product needs to be developed, tested, patented (or patent-filed), and brought to market in 12 months. The R&D director, who has an industrial engineering background and a track record of successfully leading projects of this nature, has assigned you as an in-house project manager (PM) to this project. As the project manager:

1. Listthe 3 primary characteristics of this product development project that qualify it to be considered a project.
2. Describea project initiation force that caused this project to be initiated.
3. Explainwhy you chose the specific type of project.
4. Summarizethe project life cycle that will likely follow this project.
5. Describethe selection method that has been used to initiate the project.
6. Identify2 to 3 of the constraints that the PM will be required to manage.
7. Identifyat least 5 stakeholders you imagine will be key to the success of this project.
8. Determinethe best project structure for this project.

Please give explanation.

Please give references.