Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan communications processes
- Identify, document and analyse information requirements, with input from stakeholders and guidance from a higher project authority, as the basis for communications planning
- Develop, within delegated authority, an agreed communications management plan to ensure clarity of understanding and achievement of project objectives throughout the project life cycle
- Establish and maintain designated project management information system (PMIS) to ensure the quality, validity, timeliness and integrity of information and communication
- Manage project information
- Manage the generation, gathering, storage, retrieval, analysis and dissemination of information by project staff and stakeholders within established systems and procedures to aid decision making processes throughout the project life cycle
- Implement, modify, monitor and control designated information validation processes to optimise quality and accuracy of data
- Implement and maintain agreed communication networks between project staff, client and other stakeholders to ensure effective communications at appropriate levels throughout the project life cycle
- Identify communication and information management system problems and report them to a higher project authority
- Assess communications management outcomes
- Conduct finalisation activities to ensure agreed ownership of, and responsibility for, information collected
- Review project outcomes to determine the effectiveness of management information and communications processes and procedures
- Identify and document lessons learned and recommended improvements, and pass on to higher project authority for application in future projects