Assessment of Current Communication Plan in Project Management

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................................2
1. Assessment of the Current Communication Plan.......................................................................2
2. Comparison of the communication plan with project management practices...........................3
3. Recommendations......................................................................................................................3
4. Justification of the Recommendations........................................................................................4
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................5
References......................................................................................................................................6

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Introduction
Communication management is one of the most important aspects of project management as
effective project communication is important to weave a link between project manager, project team
and the stakeholders linked with a project. Communication plan is an essential aspect of project
stakeholders’ management as therefore, communication is considered to be an effective tool for
ensuring proper communication flow among the team members [4]. The following report discusses the
communication issues that a particular project had faced and assess the current communication plan
that is proposed for the project. The project of improving the Public Health Informatics had previously
failed due to lack of effective communication among the stakeholders. The following paragraphs
discusses the effectiveness of the communication plan prepared and the recommends and provides
certain recommendations based on that assessment.
1. Assessment of the Current Communication Plan
A project of integration of the public health informatics system is proposed, whose duration is
six to twelve months. In order to successfully execute this project in such a less time, it is essential to
ascertain effective collaboration among all the internal and external stakeholders of the project [3]. The
collaborative methodology that is followed in this particular project involves business process analysis,
analysis of the process redesign and defining the requirements of the project. In successful execution of
this particular project, the project team identified the need of developing a structured communication
plan. The communication plan that is prepared is assessed on basis of its design and functionality. The
current communication plan is prepared by the project manager, which is a positive point of the current
communication. The project manager has an idea of the tasks and the processes that are needed to be
executed in a project along with the details of the stakeholders involved with a project [1]. Therefore,
this particular communication plan involves all the necessary details related to a standard
communication plan. The current communication plan provides all the necessary details of the
stakeholders, their issues, communication methods and communication timings. However, of the
significant issues associated with this particular system is that in order to input all the details, the
complexity of the communication plan has increased to a considerable amount. In the following section
of the report, the communication plan is evaluated on basis of the standard project management
practices.
2. Comparison of the communication plan with project management practices