From the course: Project Management Simplified
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How to monitor project progress
From the course: Project Management Simplified
How to monitor project progress
- How do you know whether your project is still on target to deliver on time, or has it already started to go a little bit late? The answer, and it's the only way to know how it's going, is step nine of my 12-step process, and it is to color in your Gantt chart to monitor your progress against your plan. Color in what you've done, and make sure you're keeping up with the today line, which moves relentlessly across the page. This is one of the quickest and easiest parts of project management, and yet, often, people don't do it. They make a lovely, big Gantt chart to impress their customer or persuade their boss to let them do the project, and then they file it away and never use it again. What a shame, when the coloring in is so quick and so useful and the alternative is not good at all. If you don't have a plan, or if you have a plan, but you don't monitor your progress against it, you won't know where you are until you get almost to the end. And then, once the finish date is in…
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