To successfully meet our schedules we must monitor and adjust productivity.
- Putting a target on paper is just the start
- If you plan to finish a task by next Friday you can’t wait until Thursday to determine if you are going to make it
- You have to monitor and track progress along the way
- This allows for adjustments
- To stay on schedule you have to track the productivity
- Many projects get into crisis mode as the time runs low for a task because they didn’t track things along the way
- Want to complete a task by next Friday then figure out how much needs to get done each day
- I am taking a course that I want to complete in 3 weeks, I sat down this morinng and outlined how much I need to do every day to reach my goal – do the same for your project tasks
- Putting it into practice
- Start with a good 3-week look-ahead schedule
- Choose a couple of key tasks that will drive the schedule
- Based on the task, determine the best way to track it – SF / LF / Rooms / Areas
- Start tracking the first day – make adjustments along the way to be sure and reach your milestones