In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007

Chapter 10. Establishing Guidelines for Tracking

YOU SHOULDN’T STOP WORKING WITH your project plan when you complete the planning phase. Successful projects revolve around project plans that receive the "TLC" (tender loving care) of monitoring. If you take advantage of your plan to monitor and track what happens on your project, you can use the information about what actually happens in a number of ways. For example, by monitoring your plan, you can predict deviations much earlier than if you don’t track the project’s progress—and you might be able to adjust the plan to accommodate those shifts before your project becomes hopelessly over budget ...