Mudassar KhanProgram (Project )Manager| Woodward Canada IncPeterborough, ON, Canada
How do PM's ensure their projects triple constraint and EVM is on track, what are the optimum methodologies to adopt to ensure the progress remains on track ? Saving Changes...
Mudassar KhanProgram (Project )Manager| Woodward Canada IncPeterborough, ON, Canada
Mar 30, 2017 10:27 AM
Replying to Ruben Dario Abello Medina
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Monitoring and control, thats the answer. From project to project may varied in what to monitor and control, but the proccess is the same: group of monitor and proccess control
Can you please elaborate the tasks in M & C?? Saving Changes...
Mansoor MustafaSenior PM| Government DepartmentRawalpindi Punjab, Pakistan
Continous M&C will provide check on all aspects of projects Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
As PM the only thing you must to assure is you are in control. You never can assure that the project is on track. Why? Because there is a probability of being on track that you can not avoid. So, the only thing you can do is to calculate the probability to be behind or ahead and o demostrate you are in control you must show no surprises. You must anticipate the eventss. But again, taking into account that is no possibility to anticipate all the events unless you are God or any other force you believe that governs the Universe.. Saving Changes...
Janice GrierSenior Technical Vendor Manager| ATTShelby Township, Mi, United States
Your project management plan should indicate
* what you will monitor/control (including people, activities, and budget)
* how often
* your thresholds for green, yellow and red Saving Changes...
Anish AbrahamPrivacy Program Manager| University of WashingtonAuburn, Wa, United States
Monitor metrics and milestones. Keep an eye out for critical path milestones and monitor progress towards these milestones. Saving Changes...
Thank you Vincent, but how do we control the frequency ? During Planning or Replan during M & C ?
Simple answer is on a regular basis. As often as possible.
With incoming informations, so for most weekly. Then evaluate if replanning is required. Saving Changes...
The team's mantra for this to achieve should be: Inspect and adapt, Transparency, Inspect and Adapt, Transparency.......Inspect and Adapt, Transparency...... Saving Changes...
vivek gargAgile Coach / Vice President| Deutsche BankGhaziabad, Utterpradesh, India
In my views, we can't completely ensure that project is always on track due to any of the future risks / issues or ongoing major issues. Certain risks can't be mitigated and it need to be accepted.
Based on my vast experience, PMBOK, Bookies answer don't helped much & Tools can't do much on its own if Team can't proceed further and team is not motivated. Focusing so much on planning would be a guide of waste in my views as by spending so much time on planning and updating plan, what benefits we used to get out of it as any plan is no use if Team can't exactly implement it which hardly happened due to so many factors as many plans are not practical enough, estimations provided by management, so much time spent on estimations and planning but what real benefit we get out of it.
Major focus should be on improving transparency, resolving impediments Teams & organizations are facing due to that their efficiency and day to day work get impact, Helping them clarify the vision, that team members understand their work, their priority.
Also Regularly look into Risk, Assumptions, Issue, and Dependencies and work towards it, set accountability of each item specifically risk, issue and dependencies as well as eta.
Please let me know your views, happy to hear you out. Saving Changes...
William TurnoDeputy Project Manager| ILJIN Electric Co., Ltd. Singapore BranchSingapore, Singapore, Singapore
Based on experience, the following are the things that I normally do: 1. Make sure the baselines (schedule) are current.
2. If the project timeline is critical, I will do a daily monitoring report and compared it to the baseline. This is not based on cost, this is based on the quantity completed.
3. If the project timeline is manageable, I will do a weekly / monthly progress report and compared it to the baseline.
4. Early arrangement for the activities that involve third party, this will always be a big issue if there is a "miss communication" and last minute request or booking of schedule.
So far with this method, all of my projects were completed on time. Saving Changes...
