Project Communication

How to Get Feedback From Project Team and Stakeholders

by Josh

I received a question from Inside pmStudent e-Learning about getting feedback from your project team and stakeholders.  It’s important to have an open environment where team members and stakeholders feel comfortable to give feedback in person, but surveys can be useful as a way to allow for an extra channel of communication.  For those not inclined to speak up it can be helpful, especially since it’s anonymous.

I recorded a video earlier about how to use PollDaddy.com to conduct an anonymous survey and referenced that video in this one.

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Project Communication – Email Accountability Check

by Josh June 25, 2010 Communication

Time to hold my feet to the fire. Recently I wrote a post about email communication on projects.  My focus was for co-located teams and my aversion to using email as a primary communication mechanism for this kind of project environment. I’ve been with my new team for about 6 weeks now and decided it [...]

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Once Bitten, Twice Shy

by Josh May 1, 2010 Communication

“Mark, I expect you to perform at the level you committed to. There is no excuse for this, you are making our entire project team look bad. Your tasks were nowhere near the critical path before, but now you ARE the critical path.”

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Project Communication

by Travis K. Anderson, MBA, PMP April 6, 2009 Communication

Effective project managers communicate about 90% of their time. There are no misunderstandings; there are only failures to communicate. Project managers communicate by using different mediums to convey a message. The message might be to an individual, a selective meeting with team leads, project sponsors, or the whole team collectively. It is truly critical for [...]

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