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Chapter 9
Communications
Management
The overall purpose of communications management is to
oversee and control project data processes from collection
to categorization to dissemination to utilization and
decisionmaking.
Components
Communications Management Planning
The purpose of communications planning is to determine
the information and communications needs of all project
stakeholders: who needs what—when, where, and how?
Communications Management
(Information Distribution)
Communications management encompasses the methods or
means of making information available to the project stakehold-
ers and includes information retrieval and distribu