2. Monitor Communications
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Process Group and Knowledge Area Mapping
Knowledge Areas Initiating Planning Process Group Executing Process Group Monitoring and Controlling Process Group Closing Process Group
4. Project Integration
Management
4.1 Develop Project Charter
4.2 Develop Project Management
Plan
4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
4.4 Manage Project Knowledge
4.5 Monitor and Control Project Work
4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control
4.7 Close Project or Phase
5. Project Scope
Management
5.1 Plan Scope Management
5.2 Collect Requirements
5.3 Define Scope
5.4 Create WBS
5.5 Validate Scope
5.6 Control Scope
6. Project Schedule
Management
6.1 Plan Schedule Management
6.2 Define Activities
6.3 Sequence Activities
6.4 Estimate Activity Durations
6.5 Develop Schedule
6.6 Control Schedule
7. Project Cost Management
7.1 Plan Cost Management
7.2 Estimate Costs
7.3 Determine Budget
7.4 Control Costs
8. Project Quality
Management
8.1 Plan Quality Management 8.2 Manage Quality 8.3 Control Quality
9. Project Resource
Management
9.1 Plan Resource Management
9.2 Estimate Activity Resources
9.3 Acquire Resources
9.4 Develop Team
9.5 Manage Team
9.6 Control Resources
10. Project Communications
Management
10.1 Plan Communications
Management
10.2 Manage Communications 10.3 Monitor Communications
11. Project Risk
Management
11.1 Plan Risk Management
11.2 Identify Risks
11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk
Analysis
11.5 Plan Risk Responses
11.6 Implement Risk Responses 11.7 Monitor Risks
12. Project Procurement
Management
12.1 Plan Procurement Management 12.2 Conduct Procurements 12.3 Control Procurements
13. Project Stakeholder
Management
13.1 Identify Stakeholders 13.2 Plan Stakeholder Engagement
13.3 Manage Stakeholder
Engagement
13.4 Monitor Stakeholder Engagement
3. What is it?
Monitor Communications is the process of ensuring the information
needs of the project and its stakeholders are met.
Why?
The key benefit of this process is the optimal information flow as
defined in the communications management plan and the stakeholder
engagement plan.
Monitor Communications
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
4. Overview
• Monitor Communications determines if the planned communications artefacts and
activities have had the desired effect of increasing or maintaining stakeholders’
support for the project’s deliverables and expected outcomes.
• Monitor Communications may require a variety of methods, such as customer
satisfaction surveys, collecting lessons learned, observations of the team, reviewing
data from the issue log, or evaluating changes in the stakeholder engagement
assessment matrix.
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Monitor Communications
5. Monitor Communications
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Inputs Tools & Techniques Outputs
1. Project management plan
• Resource management plan
• Communications management
plan
• Stakeholder engagement plan
2. Project documents
• Issue log
• Lessons learned register
• Project communications
3. Work performance reports
4. Enterprise environmental factors
5. Organizational process assets
1. Expert judgment
2. Project management
information system
3. Data analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
assessment matrix
4. Interpersonal and team skills
• Observation/conversation
5. Meetings
1. Work performance information
2. Change requests
3. Project management plan
updates
• Communications
management plan
• Stakeholder engagement plan
4. Project documents updates
• Issue log
• Lessons learned register
• Stakeholder register
Inputs, Tools & Techniques, Outputs
6. Monitor Communications
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
10.3 Monitor
Communications
Project
Management
Plan
Enterprise/Orga
nization
4.3 Direct and
Manage Project
Work
• Work performance
information
• Issue log
• Lessons learned register
• Project communications
• Enterprise environmental factors
• Organizational process assets
• Resource management plan
• Communications
management plan
• Stakeholder engagement
plan
Project
Documents
• Work Performance Report
Project
Documents
Project
Management
Plan
• Change requests
• Communications
management plan
• Stakeholder
engagement plan
• Issue log
• Lessons learned register
• Project communications
4.6 Perform
Integrated
Change Control
4.5 Monitor
and Control
Project Work
7. Monitor Communications - Inputs
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Project Management Plan
Project Management Plan components include:
• Resource management plan
• Communication management plan
• Stakeholder engagement plan
9. Monitor Communications - Inputs
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Work Performance Data
Work performance data contains data on the types and quantities of
communications that have actually been distributed.
10. Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Enterprise Environmental Factors
The enterprise environmental factors that can influence the Monitor
Communications process include:
• Organizational culture, political climate, and governance framework
• Established communication channels, tools, and systems
• Global, regional, or local trends, practices, or habits
• Geographic distribution of facilities and resources
Monitor Communications - Inputs
11. Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Organisational Process Assets
The organizational process assets that may influence the Monitor Communications
process include:
• Corporate policies and procedures for social media, ethics, and security
• Organizational communication requirements
• Standardized guidelines for development, exchange, storage, and retrieval of
information
• Historical information and lessons learned repository from previous projects
• Stakeholder and communications data and information from previous projects.
Monitor Communications - Inputs
12. Monitor Communications – Tools & Techniques
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Expert Judgement
Expertise should be considered from individuals or groups with specialized
knowledge or training in the following topics:
• Communications with the public, the community, and the media, and, in an
international environment, between virtual groups
• Communications and project management systems
13. Monitor Communications – Tools & Techniques
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Project Management Information System
Project management information systems provides a set of standard tools
for the project manager to capture, store, and distribute information to
internal and external stakeholders with the information they need
according the communications plan. The information contained in the
system is monitored to assess its validity and effectiveness.
14. Monitor Communications – Tools & Techniques
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Data Representation
A data representation technique that can be used includes but is not
limited to the stakeholder engagement assessment matrix, which can
provide information about the effectiveness of the communications
activities. This is achieved by reviewing changes between desired and
current engagement and adjusting communications as necessary.
15. Monitor Communications – Tools & Techniques
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Interpersonal and Team Skills
Interpersonal and team skills that can be used for this process include
but are not limited to observation/conversation. Discussion and dialogue
with the project team helps determine the most appropriate way to
update and communicate project performance, and to respond to
requests from stakeholders for information.
16. Monitor Communications – Tools & Techniques
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Meetings
Face-to-face or virtual meetings are used for:
• Decision making
• Responding to stakeholder requests
• Having discussions with suppliers, vendors, and other project
stakeholders.
17. Monitor Communications – Outputs
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Work Performance Information
Work performance information includes information on how project
communication is performing by comparing the communications that
were implemented compared to those that were planned. It also
considers feedback on communications, such as survey results on
communication effectiveness.
18. Monitor Communications – Outputs
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Change Requests
The Monitor Communications process often results in the need for adjustment,
action, and intervention on communications activities defined in the
communications management plan. Change requests are processed through the
Perform Integrated Change Control process. These change requests may result in:
• Revision of stakeholder communication requirements, including stakeholders’
information distribution, content or format, and distribution method
• New procedures to eliminate bottlenecks
19. Monitor Communications – Outputs
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Project Management Plan Updates
Any change to the project management plan goes through the organization’s change
control process via a change request. Components that may require a change
request for the project management plan include:
• Communications management plan
• Stakeholder engagement plan
20. Monitor Communications – Outputs
Coincides with PMBOK 10.3
Project Document Updates
Project documents that may be updated as a result of carrying out this process
include:
• Issue log
• Lessons learned register
• Stakeholder register
Notas do Editor
This process is performed throughout the project.
The impact and consequences of project communications should be carefully evaluated and monitored to ensure that the right message with the right content (the same meaning for sender and receiver) is delivered to the right audience, through the right channel, and at the right time.
The Monitor Communications process can trigger an iteration of the Plan Communications Management and/or Manage Communications processes to improve effectiveness of communication through additional and possibly amended communications plans and activities.
Resource management plan - The resource management plan can be used to understand the actual project organization and any changes through understanding of roles and responsibilities and the project organization charts.
Communications management plan - The communications management plan contains the current plan for collecting, creating, and distributing information in a timely manner. It identifies the team members, stakeholders, and the work involved in the communication process.
Stakeholder engagement plan - The stakeholder engagement plan identifies the communication strategies that are planned to engage stakeholders.
Issue log - The issue log provides the project’s history, a record of stakeholder engagement issues, and how they were resolved.
Lessons learned register - Lessons learned earlier in the project can be applied to later phases in the project to improve communication effectiveness.
Project communications - Provides information about communications that have been distributed.
Observation and conversation enables the project manager to identify issues within the team, conflicts between people, or individual performance issues.
The communications management plan is updated with new information to make communication more effective.
The stakeholder engagement plan is updated to reflect the actual situation of stakeholders, their communication needs, and their importance.
Issue log - The issue log may be updated with new information on issues raised, their progress, and resolution.
Lessons learned register - The lessons learned register may be updated with causes of issues, reasons behind the corrective actions chosen, and other communication lessons learned as appropriate.
Stakeholder register - The stakeholder register may be updated with revised stakeholder communication requirements.