Supply Chain Cost Management: The AIM & DRIVE® Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results

Monitoring Performance

The implementation of a plan in any project process needs to be monitored in order to make sure that action items are completed by a certain date. The project coordinator or team leader’s job is to see that the worksheets are constantly updated. It is advisable to make notes that explain why a project plan, or any action item within it, is delayed. Not only does that help the team understand the cause of delay but those who may later use this strategy and its worksheets may learn from it as well. For example, the team may have had an unrealistic time line to implement an engineering change on a particular project. If another team, at a later date, is faced with a similar situation but in that case time is of the essence, ...