Project Communication Management: Key for Project Success in Construction Arena

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Introduction to Project Communication Management- Knowledge area

One  common theme in post-project assessments is a project team identifying communication as one area they need to improve. Project team members— particularly those working on troubled projects often believe that their project would have progressed more smoothly had the team used more effective, efficient and established communication practices.

The process of managing a project’s communications should keep all participants both team members and all key stakeholders up-to-date on the project’s progress. The process should also help project managers and project leaders make major project decisions and reach critical project milestones and project objectives. To achieve a successful outcome, project managers need a vast amount of information, such as expectations, goals, needs, resources, project plans and schedules, status reports, and budgets and purchase requests. They also need to communicate this information, at regular intervals, to all team members and other project stakeholders.

Because project communication management functions as a tool for integrating all processes involved in implementing and managing a project, project managers should use this tool to build a bridge between all stakeholders and create a cohesive and culturally sensitive project environment that …

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