91. What can I do when people claim that they are too busy to provide status updates?
Getting cooperation from your team members for project management processes in general is covered in Problem 36. Encourage effective status cooperation using carrots and sticks. If that doesn’t work, look for alternative methods to keep up with what is going on.
Providing Encouragement: Carrots
One of the most critical factors for status collection is keeping the process as simple as possible. If you expect a lot of detail or make people figure out exactly what status they need to provide, you will get only intermittent results. It’s better to send each contributor a list of all his or her current and approaching activities with a space for a date and another ...
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