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Victorian Institute of Technology Pty Ltd
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Victorian Institute of Technology Pty Ltd
ABN: 41 085 128 525 RTO No: 20829 TEQSA ID: PRV14007 CRICOS Provider Code: 02044E
Title of the assignment: Role of communication management in project management
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Date: 5/24/2019
Table of Contents
1.    Introduction    3
2.    Importance of communication management in projects    4
3.    Processes and different communication areas    7
4.    Techniques and tools of communication management    9
5.    Challenges of communication management    12
6.    Conclusion summary    14
7.    References:    16
1. Introduction
The required processes for insuring the collection, retrieval, distribution and generation of required information for any project execution mainly comes under the domain of communication management. The project managers working on different projects spend their most of the time to maintain their communication with the working team members. This time is spending to maintain the communicational flow among internal and external stakeholders. So, with communication management it becomes easy for any project manager to identify the involved stakeholders, make communication with them, distribute the required information to them, manage the expectations of all stakeholders, and generating report of project performance. The specific information related to development and execution of any project is mainly exchanged among different involved users with communication management. The effective communication among the project stakeholders is effectively ensured by technologies of communication management. The project information and its availability on timely manner are assured generating, collecting, distributing, storing, retrieving and disposition with specific communication tools.
The communication model developed with project management involves different key components and so, their understanding becomes essential. The communication is mainly conducted among the sender and receiver with a specific communication medium. The information of the communication message is decoded by the receiver by supplying the required credentials of communication management. The simplicity of communication management makes it essential to implement with project management. The mainly occu
ed issues among all involved stakeholders are mainly identified with communication management. The occu
ed ba
iers among the stakeholders are also identified by communication management. The provided bilateral communication among stakeholders shows the main disadvantage of communication management. With communication management, the project managers can easily set the required communication channels among the stakeholders. With increased complexity of project, the requirement of communication model also increases. When the project communication is creating the
idge of organizational back ground and making connections based on their cultures, then, the communication management is successfully implemented. The communication management has different interests and perspectives for the outcome realization of any implemented project. The table to show the uses of different communication types with examples is presented below:
    Sr. No.
    Type of communication
    Occu
ed situations for best examples of uses
    1.
    Informal ve
al communication
    This type of communication is mostly occu
ed during regular meetings.
    2.
    Informal written communication
    This type of communication is mostly used to create notes of specific topics, email content, and writing memos.
    3.
    Formal ve
al communication
    This type of communication is mostly used to give speeches and giving presentations.
    4.
    Formal written communication
    This type of communication is mostly used to create management plans and making long distance communications.
Table 1: types of communications
2. Importance of communication management in projects
The communication management is important area of project management has its own importance in project implementation. The 80% of total work time of project managers is spent in handling the communication among team and involved stake holders. The project success can be assured by the effective communication on easy bases. Most of the risks to the projects are because of improper communication. Most of the project failures are created by the improper uses of communication management. So, communication is the key stone on which complete success of any project is based. The increased performance of any project can easily be archived by the effective implementation of communication management. The handling of project risks becomes easy because of project used communication management. The interconnection of the top management with HR management, change management and resource management can easily be managed with the communication management. So, the communication skills of PM can use the effective communication management for assuring the project success. The diagram to show importance of communication management is:
Figure 1: importance of communication management
The communication management provides strong benefits to project management and mainly identified importances of communication management are:
1. The project success can be assured by the effective communication on easy bases. Most of the risks to the projects are because of improper communication.
2. Most of the project failures are created by the improper uses of communication management. So, communication is the key stone on which complete success of any project is based.
3. The increased performance of any project can easily be archived by the effective implementation of communication management.
4. The handling of project risks becomes easy because of project used communication management.
5. The interconnection of the top management with HR management, change management and resource management can easily be managed with the communication management. So, the communication skills of PM can use the effective communication management for assuring the project success.
6. The implementation of PMBOK for project integration, HR management, occu
ed changes to project and their management and management of involved stakeholders becomes easy with change management.
7. The controlling and monitoring the faced issues in different management strategies becomes easy with communication management.
8. The developed strategy and communication plan by the PM can assure the success of project.
9. The progress of complete project can be monitored and...