Drake SettsuProject Manager / BloggerHi, United States
Very good input from the group.
1) Keep it simple. I select the tasks for the teams member in MS Project and paste it into an Excel spreadsheet. I email the spreadsheet to the team requesting an update with a specific due date / time.
2) I also IM team members that look like they will be late in reporting their status a reminder to report their status.
3) No response gets a personal visit to find out what's going on. Saving Changes...
RAJESH K LProject Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, IndiaBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Agree with Andrew Saving Changes...
RAJESH K LProject Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, IndiaBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Agree with Naomi & Andrew Saving Changes...
Benjamin ZiskovenAgile Coach| NikeAmsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Pamelo, it's a challenge for me too, but it's clear to the team what the advantages are of doing it. I try to make it easier for them, so it requires less, but it's also a matter of consistency and habit. It requires patience from me to call them every time I notice the status of deliverables hasn't been updated, and ask them to complete it. I also do this to verify if the quality of the product has been met, and then check up with a sample of products. Saving Changes...
RAJESH K LProject Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, IndiaBengaluru, Karnataka, India
The best thing is to automate the process of status collection along with verifiable locks to assess the correctness of status.
Discussion/Review of 2 to 3 hrs per week would be ideal to assess and plan for the upcoming week. Saving Changes...
The more developed the processes for project management on a project the less and less time should be spent on monitoring of the projects. In some case only when a highlighted risk will be met should this be reported but if everything else runs to plan then in theory their is no reason to report anything or give a status as this will lead into another project deliverable. Saving Changes...
