Recently, I inherited a mess of a project. During the scope stages, it became more and more apparent that effective communication hadn't been established across all key stakeholders.

I'm a firm believer that the right communication establishes a structure for effective project execution. It lays down clear project goals and objectives, leaving no room for ambiguity.

Creating a communication matrix often makes a difference to planning. How do you manage your communication within your projects?

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I create a project charter and resource plan and have my sponsor sign off on it. Let’s call it an internal SOW. I also set up/propose a governance structure including roles and responsibilities, raci, and a comms plan. If this mess of a project doesn’t have that, it’s a good place to start.

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This is tricky stepping into something that is already a mess. Speak up about it to upper management and take note of what and where the issues are and then get caught up to update timelines to see what is off the rails and what is required to get it back on track . Use your voice and knowledge to poke through what is not looking right and try to find resources of people to help you understand what happens and then get creative with finding resolutions along the way . This adds value that your manager will appreciate. If you say nothing and ur keeps going incorrectly it will get worse and worse and people will want to point fingers at someone and the new person will be to blame sooner or later . Set up important calls with key stakeholders to get history on what transpired so you have all the details and are prepared to move forward in making adjustments - most likely in many areas such as resources- timelines - man hours/updates budgets and so on

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