CHAPTER 5

Planning Project Communications

If you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail.1

—The Reverend H. K. Williams, religious leader and author

Most often, we associate the concept of failing to plan or prepare with the overall project. If we fail to plan the project, we are planning for the project to fail. However, it can also be applied to planning communication on a project. What are the chances of project success if we fail to plan our communications? This chapter incorporates key concepts from other chapters in this book into the first process in the PMBOK® Guide’s Project Communications Management Knowledge Area, which is Plan Communications Management (Figure 5.1).

Figure 5.1 Plan communications

The purpose of this chapter is ...

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