Milestone

HCM 490 Milestone Five Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: In this milestone, you will submit your communication and evaluation plan for your project.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

II. Phase II—Communication Plan
A. Communication and Management Strategy: Your total communication plan should address the strategies and practices you will employ to

communicate to the proper stakeholders at the proper times. In this section, you should detail your comprehensive approach for how you will
communicate this change and its impact, how you will keep people informed of the project’s progress, and how you will keep people informed
of the project’s ongoing results.

III. Phase III—Evaluation Strategy: This plan for managing and measuring progress and success of your initiative should include the following:
A. A discussion of the specific goals and milestones of implementation of the initiative. Lay out your goals in a clear, obtainable fashion to ensure

that progress milestones are clear, reasonable, and consistent.
B. Specific definitions of measures of progress toward obtaining the intended goals and a description of the tools that you would use to measure

progress. What strategies will be used to measure success, and how will adjustments be made should progress toward these goals fall short or
change?

C. How do you intend to collect and analyze information to ascertain stakeholder satisfaction with the initiative? What information will be looked
at, and who are the stakeholders that will be considered?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: This milestone should be no more than seven PowerPoint slides in length. All references should be cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Communication

and Management
Strategy

Explains the strategies and practices to
communicate to the proper stakeholders at
the proper times, including how to
communicate this change and its impact, keep
people informed of the project’s progress, and
keep people informed of the project’s ongoing
results

Explains the strategies and practices to
communicate to the proper stakeholders at
the proper times, including to communicate
this change and its impact, keep people
informed of the project’s progress, and keep
people informed of the project’s ongoing
results, but lacks detail or clarity

Does not explain the strategies and practices
to communicate to the proper stakeholders at
the proper times, including to communicate
this change and its impact, keep people
informed of the project’s progress, and keep
people informed of the project’s ongoing
results

23

Goals and
Milestones

Discusses the specific goals and milestones of
implementation of the initiative

Discusses the specific goals and milestones of
implementation of the initiative but lacks
detail or clarity

Does not discuss the specific goals and
milestones of implementation of the initiative

23

Measures of
Progress

Provides the definitions of measures of
progress toward obtaining the intended goals
and a description of the tools to measure
progress

Provides the definitions of measures of
progress toward obtaining the intended goals
and a description of the tools to measure
progress but lacks detail or clarity

Does not provide the definitions of measures
of progress toward obtaining the intended
goals and a description of the tools to
measure progress

23

Stakeholder
Satisfaction

Explains intention to collect and analyze
information to ascertain stakeholder
satisfaction with the initiative

Explains intention to collect and analyze
information to ascertain stakeholder
satisfaction with the initiative but lacks detail
or clarity

Does not explain intention to collect and
analyze information to ascertain stakeholder
satisfaction with the initiative

23

Articulation of
Response

Submission has no major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization

Submission has major errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that negatively impact readability
and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to
citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or
organization that prevent understanding of
ideas

8

Total 100%