Chapter 15: Communicating Project Information

Overview

This chapter is the detailed guide to project communication, focusing on the communication options within Microsoft Project Standard 2002. (The enterprise communication features unique to Project Professional and Project Server will be discussed in Chapters 21 and 22. We’ll begin by examining the role of communication in project management overall and then look at the two most common methods for communicating project information: manual and e-mailñbased data collection and feedback. Here are the topics covered in this chapter:

• Understanding project communication

• Using e-mail to communicate project information

• Sending and receiving workgroup messages

• Customizing workgroup messages