TABLE OF CONTENTS You have completed the plan or have completed sufficient iterations to have an acceptable plan, and the project is progressing. Now the important phase of regular monitoring begins. Monitoring is important to help catch problems as early as possible, and thus to help minimize the impact of the problem on the successful completion of the project.
The main steps for monitoring progress are:
Setting the Target dates these are the dates against which progress is compared
Record or mark-up progress
Update or status the schedule
Compare and report actual progress against planned progress and revise the schedule if required.
Often a statusing report, such as the one below, is printed out with page breaks at each responsible person. This report is distributed for them to mark up the projects progress and returned it to the scheduler. It has a filter applied that displays the activities that are incomplete and those that will start in the next few weeks.
Setting the Target copies the planned start and planned finish dates into fields titled Target Start and Target Finish. Once you have set the Target dates you will be able to compare your progress with your original plan. You will be able to see if you are ahead or behind schedule and by how much. If you do not set the Target dates you will be unable to compare your progress with your original...
