How to Prepare and Conduct a Project Review

Joan Knutson

PM Network 6 (October 1996)

At the end of ninety days plus one month, a program manager conducts a project review. Why ninety days plus one month? Well, the project has been under way for three months (one quarter) and it takes one month to prepare the briefing. The program manager makes his report at the project review meeting and one or more of the following occurs: a new schedule is distributed; a new design/technical approach is recommended; the status of the first deliverables has been changed from complete to “preliminary” or has a to-do list attached; and/or it is announced that the first milestone has already been missed.

Sound familiar? With a complex project, aggressively bid, ...

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