Why Communication Is the Most Important Factor in Your Project?
The main job of a project manager is to communicate.
Not to build a comprehensive risk management plan, tick checklists, and create Gantt charts. It may be part of the work you need to do, but it will not fill most of your time. Communication will, and for every individual project you will manage or be part of, will always be prevalent. A project manager will spend an average of 90% of the time communicating.
When projects fail, they mostly go wrong when communication is inexistent or ineffective. A report from the PMI (Project Management Institute) stated that with good communication practices 80% of projects met their goals, however, when communication is ineffective the success rate drops 28 points to a measly 52%. Achieving your goals half the time is less than ideal, there will be stress and damage control to both the relationships with the stakeholders and your career. On top of that, effective communicators' projects are more likely to be on time (72% VS 37%) and on budget (76% VS 48%). You can easily see the benefits of improving your project communication. However even these numbers are useful to see the big picture, they do not explain how communication supports your project.
