The topic of project communications management is interesting because although it gets little focus on the examination (there are less than eight questions on this topic), it almost always ranks as one of the management areas students and professionals consider the most important for the success of a project. Although there may be few questions that are directly from this chapter, there will be other topics in other knowledge areas that can be found under the heading of communication. (For instance, lessons learned are a form of written historical communication.) Although there are certainly several topic areas on the examination and in the text that are valuable.
the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information. It provides critical links among people and information that are necessary for project success." As with any form of management, the ability to receive and understand information, send clear and correct information, analyze incoming information, and get data in a form where the data can become useful information are key parts of a manager's function in any capacity, be it project or general management. The professional manager will always have critical tasks that involve communication. As a matter of fact, there are very, very few tasks that a manager does that do not have a component of communication in them.