If a project manager is concerned with gathering, integrating, and disseminating the outputs of all project management processes, she should concentrate on creating a better:

Question

Options

• AWBS.
• BCommunications management plan.
• CProject management information system.
• DProject scope management plan.

• A
  8% (2)
• B
  4% (1)
• C
  75% (18)
• D
  13% (3)

Explanation

A Project Management Information System (PMIS) is specifically designed to gather, integrate, and disseminate information across all project management processes - making it the direct answer. It serves as the central hub for collecting inputs, processing data, and distributing outputs (schedules, reports, performance data) to stakeholders.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. WBS - A Work Breakdown Structure organizes project scope into deliverables; it doesn't handle information flow across processes.
• B. Communications management plan - This plan defines who gets information and how, but it doesn't gather or integrate process outputs - it relies on the PMIS to do that.
• D. Project scope management plan - This governs how scope is defined and controlled, not how project-wide information is collected and shared.

Memory tip: Think of PMIS as the project's "nervous system" - it collects signals (inputs), processes them (integration), and sends messages throughout the body (dissemination). Any question about system-wide information flow across processes points to PMIS, not a plan or a structure.

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