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.
Does this sound familiar?
- The end date has moved twice already, each time for a good reason
- Nobody can say what percentage is done without guessing
- Work is being done that you did not know was in scope
- The report you get is a list of activities, not a position
- Asked what it will cost, you get a range instead of a number
What we do
We start with a ten-working-day Project Scan, longer as there is more in it. In it we record what was agreed, what is actually there, and where those two diverge. You do not get a verdict on your team but a measurement: which work packages are late, by how much, and what that does to the end date and the budget.
What you are left with
A recorded baseline measurement with the deviation per main work package, a forecast for the end date and final cost, and a list of what has to happen to get back on course. That is enough to decide whether you continue, adjust or stop. And that decision is yours.
And after that
The advice on what has to happen is part of the scan. Carrying it out is scope and change management: reworking the structure, renegotiating the scope, recording a new agreement. That runs on inside Project Control. There you get the same measurement every period, without having to ask.
Would you like to know where your project really stands?
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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 →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.
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