Don’t Lose It
Don’t wait for trouble to surface. At the end of the first week, conduct a project review meeting. At this meeting, the key question should be, “Were the milestones met?” If the answer is “Yes,” review the deliverables in detail. Have they been quality controlled? Of prime importance is whether or not the people/functional areas that will use these deliverables find them acceptable.
Slippage can create disastrous delays and backlogs. Assume the project has ten milestones that have to be met each week, and on week one you have missed five of them. Consequently, the next week fifteen milestones must be completed, the ten required for the second week in addition to the five that were not completed the first week. Run this scenario ...
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