Communicating Project Management [Hardcover]

Communicating Project Managementargues that the communication practices of project managers have necessarily become participatory, made up of complex strategies and processes solidly grounded in rhetorical concepts. The book draws on case studies across organizational contexts and combines individual experiences to investigate how project management relies on communication as teams develop products, services, and internal processes. The case studies also provide examples of how project managers can be understood and studied as writers, further arguing project managers must approach communication as designed experience that must be intentionally inclusive. Author Benjamin Lauren illustrates to readers how teams work together to manage projects through complex coordinative communication practices, and highlights how project managers are constantly learning and evolving by analyzing where they succeed and fail. He concludes that technical and professional communicators have a pivotal role in supporting and facilitating participative approaches to communicating project management.

Project Managers as Technical Communicators

Distinguishing Between Participation and Collaboration

A Bit About Scope

My Background with Project Management

Terms

Project

Project Manager

Efficiency Models

Development Teams

Decentralization

Participation

Participatory Communication

Organization

The Research in this Book

What is to Come

Chapter Conclusion

References

Decentralization

Decentralized Development Teams

Decentralization and Development Methodologies

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