NR631 Nurse Executive Concluding Graduate Experience I

Week 4 Assignment  

The Communication Plan

PURPOSE

The process of project management has five phases:(1) design and initiation, which you just completed;(2) finalizing your plan before implementation, which you will do now; (3) implementation;(4) monitor and control; and finally, (5) evaluation and lessons learned (as well as knowledge transfer).

During Phase 2 (finalizing the project plan), you will continue to create the tools and documents you will need when you implement your project as the project manager in Phase 3.

Week 4: Communications Plan

Week5: Deliverables and Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

Week6:Work Breakdown Structure(WBS) and Gantt Chart

Week7:Risk Management and Human Resource Management Plans

In this assignment, students act as project managers to develop and facilitate project communication, including the variety of communication needs for all team members and stakeholders. The project manager is responsible for all project communication. The communication plan the project manager develops and disseminates must detail the types of communication expected throughout the project. It also documents how the information and reports will be shared and when.

To assist you, there is a document you will complete and attach as an appendix to the professional paper you will submit and an example of communication planning in Course Resources.

REQUIREMENTS

1.            Complete the Communication Plan document. Attach as an appendix to the professional paper you will develop, following the Guidelines for Writing Professional Papers document found in Course Resources.

2.            Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references ,and citations must be consistent withformal academicwriting and APA format as expressed in the current edition of the manual.

PREPARING THE ASSIGNMENT

1.            All communications used during the project must be identified and detailed in your communication plan. Attach it as an appendix to the professional paper.

2.            Ideas and information from professional sources must be cited correctly using the current edition of the APA manual.

3.            Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations must be consistent with formal academic writing.