Communication is already part of all-living-being's daily activities and it is common and convenient to communicate ideas, experiences, concerns, considerations, etc in our daily interaction with others. In project management, a project manager might need to communicate issues, concerns, and other project-related materials to functional managers, program manager or even portfolio manager.
Related to project management, it is for sure the duty of a project manager to manage and communicate issues (positive or negative) across stakeholders. To help ease the process, there are some guidelines or more a checklist on how to communicate properly:
1. What to communicate (message)
2. Who the receiver(s) is/are (stakeholders)
3. How to communicate (medium)
4. When to communicate (appropriate time)
5. What the expected result from the message is (feedback)
Having the checklist answered, communicating across projects should be a lot easier and manageable, i.e: the target audience and the time they receive the addressed message.
Quoting Dr. Paul Sanghera, PMP in his book: "PMP in Depth": "The importance of communication in project management cannot be overemphasized. Even a well-scheduled and well-funded project can fail in the hands of a hard-working team of experts due to lack of proper communication."
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. -- Abraham Maslow
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