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Communication Plan: Status, Meetings, Info Access, and Reviews INTRODUCTION: Communications Plan The Communications Plan template starts on page 3 What This Is A plan created by the team early in project to indicate their agreement on how the team will communicate important information during the project—status, meetings, issues, access to deliverables, and design and document reviews. Why It’s Useful Successful projects involve significant amounts of communication among various team members. The project manager needs Management to understand project issues and needs. Management needs to understand whether a project is on target and meeting its goals to deliver value to the company. Cross-functional team members need to get inputs and information from other team members, and give their opinions and input on critical design factors such as manufacturability and usability. Specifications must be reviewed to ensure the project will meet customer requirements. Designs must be reviewed to ensure they meet the requirements. Each element of a project may impact others at the technical design level. Team members need to participate in reviews of designs and other documents to help find defects and ensure what is being developed will work. A Communication Plan is used to help the team think through what kind of communication mechanisms they will need for a successful project. It helps establish expectations of proactive communication between team members and documents what the team agrees to do: what status reporting will be done, what team meetings will be held, how decisions will get documented, who will participate in various reviews. The Communication Plan not only makes it clear to the core team how the project communication will work; it also lets people outside the core team know what to expect. It can also document communication that should occur between related projects. If your project will make use of outside partners, the Communications Plan can also be very