How do you ensure that your project is on schedule to meet the deadline?

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Mudassar Khan Program (Project )Manager| Woodward Canada Inc Peterborough, ON, Canada

I would like to know how peers ensure the deadlines for projects are being met???

Posted: Aug 2, 2018 4:22 PM

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Ashley Bonner IT Security Governance Analyst| Freedom Mortgage Cedar Falls, Ia, United States

Aug 03, 2018 9:49 AM

Replying to Drake Settsu

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I created a weekly Deliverables spreadsheet from tasks on my MS Project plan. I would review the task deadlines that will be due in the next two weeks to make sure that they are being worked on and not stalled. I then add the tasks that are on the radar now with the owners of the tasks and request an update at the end of the week. This method allows the team members to see what everyone is working on. I send out the spreadsheet to the team every Monday morning.

That's what I would like to do. I've seen many different templates but none that I've found friendly enough to tailor to my liking.

Posted: Nov 26, 2018 12:35 AM

Anton Oosthuizen Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self Employed Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

I think a combination of Eric (detailed schedule) and Drake (Deliverable list) should do the trick. Just to add to that - The assumption is that if you spend enough time on developing the schedule you would have relevant deliverable milestones defined so you would just export those into the weekly deliverables. I would however take care not to over engineer the schedule, which is easy to do if you panic and feel like you are missing something. I find that if you define the deliverable milestone first and then flesh out the rest to get to those milestone removes a lot of the anxiety since I know that I have covered the most important element of the schedule.

Posted: Nov 26, 2018 3:42 AM

Vasoula Christoforides Project Manager Surrey, United Kingdom

To know whether deliverables have been met it is knowing whether the tasks have been executed on time as per agreed schedule. The Project Manager and teams take ownership and the Project Manager is responsible achieving deadlines

Posted: Feb 8, 2019 1:22 PM

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