Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
What's Going On?
You have three fundamental tools at your disposal to find out what is going on in your project: team meetings, status reports and issues logs. How you use each of them will make all the difference in recognizing potential problems quickly and taking appropriate corrective action.
There are numerous ways you can monitor project progress, from hallway conversations to more technical, rigorous tracking methods. In this article, we’ll stick to three less technical but equally important methods of communicating progress.
As you monitor your project, you have to ask four essential questions: What is the actual status of the project work? What is the difference (or variance) between plan and actual, and what caused it? What should be done to keep the project on track? What have we learned that we can use moving forward?
These questions can be communicated in a variety of ways. Three fundamental tools at every project manager’s disposal are team meetings, status and progress reports, and issues logs Let’s review effective techniques for using each, as well as common problems to avoid.
Team Meetings
One of the processes we discussed earlier in the book was gathering project status updates from the team. One method that most project managers use is the project team meeting. Team meetings not only help people stay focused on the project, they help build that sense of …
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