Your project is running well and you want to keep it that way
Nothing is going wrong, which is exactly why nobody is looking. Until someone asks where it stands, or until the first setback arrives and it turns out there is nothing to measure it against.
Does this sound familiar?
- The position comes from a few people's heads and not from a measurement
- What was agreed sits in an email from six months ago
- Nobody ever wrote down what falls outside scope, and it has not been a problem yet
- You would only see a setback at the moment it has already arrived
- If your project lead leaves, the overview leaves with them
What we do
We start with a Project scan of ten working days. On a project that runs well it mostly produces a record: what was agreed, where it stands, and where the room is. That the picture then matches what you thought is the good outcome and not wasted effort. From that moment on it is demonstrable rather than plausible.
What you are left with
A recorded baseline to measure against every period, and every period one report saying whether it still holds. If it is going well, that is there in black and white. If something slips, you see it in the period it happens and not in the period when it can no longer be repaired.
And if it does go wrong
Then the difference is that you see it early and that there is something to fall back on. The baseline says what was agreed, the snapshots say what has happened since, and a change request records who decided what and why. That is precisely what is missing at the moment a project stalls halfway.
Want to keep it that way?
Arrange a conversationOr is this closer to your situation?
Your project is running late and nobody can point at where
The delivery date keeps moving, the updates stay optimistic, and the question "where do we stand" produces a different answer every time. That is rarely unwillingness. What is missing is a yardstick.
Stalled project →You are starting a project and want it set up right the first time
The most expensive mistake in a project is made in the first two weeks: starting without recording what has to be delivered, when, and how you will know it is done. Much of what goes wrong afterwards traces back to that.
New project →You have to report, and it has to hold up
A steering group, a grant body, an auditor or your own board: someone asks for an account every period. And the question behind that question is always the same: is this right, and what shows it?
Reporting →