Is your project wrecking your company and leaving you destitute? The problem may be your project tracker. Watch the video below for a definition.
Define: Project Tracker. A system for monitoring long-term and cohesive activities, usually in software. Standard Time® is such a project tracker.
It’s true; projects can go crazy without a project tracker. Employees camp out on favorite tasks, and convince managers that more time is needed. Tasks go over budget, and nobody notices slowdown trends that triple the project duration. Feature creep balloons up the scope until you wake up one morning and realize you’re chasing a moving target… or the moving target is chasing you. You have to get things under control, but you don’t know how.
Those are some of the things a good project tracker can do. You can set “do not exceed” percentages for tasks. That holds tasks to a reasonable duration. It prevents the slow lag from developing. You can monitor new tasks added to the project to prevent feature creep. You can view the health of your project with Project Triangle charts. You can check resource levels to make sure nobody is over or under allocated.
Are you running a project tracker? Why not try Standard Time?