Spot check
Answer the following questions to the best of your ability:
- How well do you plan for project communications?
- Do you have a formal plan, or do you know your team and stakeholders well enough that you can forgo the planning?
- Has not having a plan for communications ever backfired?
- Have you ever had a project miscommunication that led to a significant problem?
- What would you include or remove from your plan based on the recommendations found in the PMBOK® Guide – 6th edition?
You can see that there are a lot of considerations for the human side of project management, and it's an important aspect. Without a motivated team who has the skills to achieve the goals of the project and without proper communication up, down, or even sideways, the entire project could fail. It doesn't matter how good your schedules, budgets, or scope of work are.
Moving on to the execution of project work, the managing communications process is...
