PMI-SP Exam - Topic 3 Question 116 Discussion

Tom is working with the project communication management process, as it is required to ensure the

timely disposition of project information. Project Communications Management is one of the nine

Knowledge Areas. It employs the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation,

collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information. The

following processes are part of Project Communications Management:

Identify Stakeholders

Plan Communications

Distribute information

Manage Stakeholder Expectations

Report Performance

The Project Communications Management processes provide the critical links among people and

information that are necessary for successful

communications. These processes interact with each other and with the processes in the other

Knowledge Areas as well.

Answer option B is incorrect. Managing stakeholder expectation is the process of working and

communicating with the stakeholders to meet

their requirements.

Answer option A is incorrect. Work performance measurement uses the information to create

project activity metrics to evaluate actual

progress compared to planned progress.

Answer option D is incorrect. Stakeholder analysis is the process of gathering and analyzing

quantitative and qualitative information to

determine the interest of the stakeholders.

You are the project manager for your organization. Management has asked you to document the

holidays, weekends, and other corporate

working hours, which will supersede the project timings for your schedule. Which calendar will

communicate to the project stakeholders, when

the project work will take place within the organization?