How to Build a Great Project Communications Plan

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I have one suggestion for this excellent table (and video) - it seems to focus on one-way communications (e.g. 'telling stories or tales'). The "message" is often two ways (as in a meeting). Make sure you think about meetings or other interactive messaging systems when you apply Mike's excellent T-based model here!

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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🤝 Project management is heavily reliant on effective communication, with communication being approximately 80% of the process. 01:19 💡 Your role in a project involves dispelling rumors and maintaining control through effective communication. 02:12 📊 A project communication plan is essential, typically structured in a table or matrix format with columns containing crucial information. 03:22 📋 Nine important columns in a communication plan include Theme, Topic, Target, Tool, Tone, Timing, Test, Tell, and Tick. 07:04 📈 Consider how to test and measure the effectiveness of your communication to ensure it achieves its objectives. 08:13 📜 Identify who is responsible for creating and signing off each communication, a crucial part of project governance. 09:07 📑 For key stakeholders, create specific communication plans by considering their roles, influence, relationships, and desired outcomes. 10:30 📢 Develop key messages, communication media, point persons, and budgets for effective stakeholder communication. 12:45 🛠️ Utilize project communication and stakeholder communication plans as essential tools for improving project management and success. Made with HARPA AI

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[@annisafiqah8826]

my lecturer bring me here. very nice explanation and interesting about communication with T's formula . theme, topic,target, tool,tone, timing, test,teller and tick. Stakeholders should plan their communication plan , as they important to avoid misunderstanding and incorrect message for avoiding other big risk and gain success. Thank you for sharing..

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I found this really useful. Good clear examples too. I am an educator and would love to see examples of this context too. If ever you thought about diversifying! :)

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[@lnbray]

Very useful but what do you mean by the row - line of communication? is it the message you want to convey? so what is the difference with topic? Thank you for the vids, well done

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Each row represents a communication that goes out. It may be a big message to many people or a specific message to one stakeholder.

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[@simonsimon2463]

Is creating a communication plan in agile PM a best practice?

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Agile projects need a communication plan. But you will want to adapt your approach to suit the fact you are working in an Agile way and also the particular agile methodology you have chosen. A good guide to the kind of adaptations you'll need is the set of 12 Agile Principles (onlinepmcourses.com/agile-principles-12-keys-adaptive-project-management/). I may do a video on how to adapt to these. Perhaps the most important ideas are 'show, don't tell' - making progress visible, and being concise and to the point. You will also find that the your morning stand-up is an important key to Agile communications, so check out our video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gISpl6ypmsR4jq8 Finally, the UK Government Department has some excellent advice on its blog: defradigital.blog.gov.uk/a-guide-to-agile-communication/

[@antonrenis5651]

How project deliverables are different from communication plan. Sometimes we do submit reports as per deliverables

[@Onlinepmcourses]

I think you are asking how project deliverables differ from a a communication plan - or the elements in that plan? A deliverable is anything you produce within your project. So a Communications Plan is a deliverable. Strictly, it's an 'interim deliverable' because you create it along the way to creating the desired 'end deliverables'. Likewise, every project communication can be viewed as an interim deliverable. So, your project reports are, indeed, deliverables. They are interim deliverables that will contain a status on end deliverables!

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@@Onlinepmcourses thank you. Perfect. It is clear now.

[@ayah1472]

Bleas, whats the meaning of Ts?

[@Onlinepmcourses]

I have simply chosen words for the column headers that all begin wit the letter T. No other reason than to help some people remember the items.

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[@pavanoruganti1251]

what is the difference between theme and topic?

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Pavan, it's a good question. Perhaps an example will help you. Perhaps the theme is 'team performance' and the topic is that we are ahead of schedule because the team has been solving problems faster than we'd hoped. Or maybe the theme is preparation for handover and the topic is archiving old transactions. As I am using the words (and you may understand them differently and adapt the tool), Theme is the big concept and Topic is the detailed message. Does that help, Pavan?

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@@Onlinepmcourses thanks for the prompt reply

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[@suffer4fashion]

I like the video but doing all "T"s seems like an unnecessary learning device. I'd almost say it impedes the learning a bit. For instance, I spent the first part trying to determine the defining characters and differentiation between "Theme" and "Topic". "Target" is much easier understood as "Audience".

[@Onlinepmcourses]

Thank you. Great feedback Everyone has their own way of learning. Theme vs Topic. An example - Theme: Testing - Topic: personnel assigned to the UAT (User Acceptance Test). The reason I like this - and many of the people whom I have trained also like this, is not because it helps you learn the process, but because, once you understand the process, it helps. If you are creating a Comms Plan, you know there are 9 things that could go on it. And, while trying to remember numbers 8 & 9, you at least know there are synonyms that start with T. That's a help. But everyone is different. Find the words that make the most sense for you - and use those words. As with all my tools and models, my advice is to Adopt it if you like it a lot, Adapt if it's not quite right for you, and Ignore it if you don't think it will help.

[@ayah1472]

Bleas, whats the meaning of Ts?