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How do you measure real project progress beyond planned schedules?

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Syed Ashir Riaz
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I think focusing on actual outcomes and resolving blockers gives a more accurate picture than relying only on timelines.

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Michael King
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Senior IS Project Manager| Baycare Health Systems Clearwater, Fl, United States
Syed - I agree that focusing 100% on completed the project by a certain date is not the right approach. We want to ensure that the project is providing value for the customers, and if this means delaying the project it might be the right thing to do.
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Eduard Hernandez
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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Having a baseline allows managing schedule excursions and their impact. Outcomes or deliverables (scope), along with cost and time conform the three vertices of the Iron Triangle.
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Oliver Schneidemann Transformation Professional New York, NY, United States
Consider delivering value in intervals, if this is what the customer wants/needs. Perhaps the project can be structured in phases, with a clear baseline business case for each phase that articulates what has to have been achieved at the end of each phase..
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Lissette Indhira Pimentel Sosa
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Program Manager| HARPER SRL Santo Domingo / Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic
I usually look at progress through outcomes and flow, not just dates. Completing tasks doesn’t always mean we’re moving forward if blockers remain or value isn’t being delivered.
Things like resolved dependencies, stakeholder adoption, and incremental value delivered give a much clearer signal of real progress than schedule alone.
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Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz RYLAI Access Control Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
Project progress should not be measured solely by a schedule with defined dates or milestones, but also by team commitment, new learnings received, value delivered, problems solved in each phase, risks overcome, among other important aspects that are part of the projects and greatly influence their outcome.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Syed, in today's world, real project progress is measured less by whether tasks are completed on schedule and more by whether meaningful value is being delivered. A project can appear on track in timelines and status reports while failing to solve the actual business or user problem. True progress comes from outcomes such as working solutions, customer impact, reduced risk, validated assumptions, and measurable improvements, rather than simply checking off planned activities.

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