As a project manager, how do you set goal for your team and how do measure progress? In my opinion, one way to measure progress is to evaluate if the team is reaching the sequential milestones established during the initiation phase. The team should have schedule meetings to talk about those milestones and propose ways to improve the performance of the project in case those milestones aren't being met or aren't being met on time.
I agree with the aforementioned as setting up daily or weekly meetings to go over the completion in a task is important. In addition to going over milestones and ways to improve performance of a project, the team should also go over any obstacles that are encountered and planned methods of remediation or recovery to ensure the project gets back on track or completed on time. Obstacles are inevitable but if they are not treated and handled with prudence it can lead to them not being resolved properly. Another thing is setting accurate and reachable dates of completion for a team member to ensure that the closer to the date, the higher priority there is for the deliverance for that task to make sure it gets completed on time.
I think its important to see the progress of the project and to do comparison between the current situation and the path of the project
because the project may be exposed to several external influences that are difficult to predict, and therefore monitoring during implementation will help guide the project by continuing to implement the plan or amend it or develop an alternative plan
so, as project manager you should give each member a milestone to be reached weakly and goal to be reached by the whole team and do weakly meeting to discuss the progress happened.
I believe each team member need to feel important, then let them do there work with trust that they will do it the right way. Measuring small things is easier, each large task can be split into smaller tasks which takes less time and it easier to keep track for them to know exactly the progress. Weekly and daily meetings are important parts to give feedback along the way, to know changes that happened and problems solved. Daily goals should be set depending on the feedback from the day before and weekly measurement should be taken from the small tasks that are done.
One of the most important aspects of a project manager job is measuring progress of the project on each task. It helps employees stay focused. There are some steps that help to measure project progress: - Tracking tasks - Incremental Milestones -Start and Finish -Cost ratio : The cost ratio method is usually implemented on a project that has tasks that tend to occur over a long phase or the entire project.
My only experience with project management was during my undergraduate capstone project. My team created a Gantt chart to help us track and plan our project progress. We would evaluate our progress by having routine milestone meetings where we would determine whether our goals were met on time and how we planned to accomplish upcoming goals. Although we would measure our progress by comparing our complete work to a predetermined timeline, we would often change our goals and readjust the timeline. As the project developed, we saw that some of the original goals were completely irrelevant while some of the later goals had high significance. By following this process, we were consistently aware of the progress of our project which kept us organized and on track for project completion.
I also agree that weekly meetings going over milestones or goals is important in measuring progress. However, in addition to the project group's progress, it is also important to take into account individual task progress, as one individual slacking may slow down the overall progress of the project team. Thus, it is important that the PM keep records for what each individual is up to and their contributions to the overall project. As for setting goals for the project, this should be covered in the weekly meetings and often changes, as pn266 mentioned. Additionally, the PM should set goals that seem within reach, as goals that are too ambitious or improbable may not succeed or may just delay the completion of the project. Keeping records of each meeting is also important, in the meeting minutes, so that one can go back to see the progress of ideas or tasks and remind themselves of anything important that was covered during the meeting sessions.
At my current job I worked on a project where our project manager had two methods for tracking progress: One was a traditional timeline in the form of a Gantt Chart, and the other was a list of “off-timeline” tasks that was updated as meeting minutes after each weekly status update meeting. This worked for our team since the Gantt Chart could be used as a more broad overview of the project’s deliverables that was easy to present to upper management, whereas the meeting minutes were used to keep track of more specific activities that needed to be accomplished for each of the broader deliverables to be completed. If each of the tasks listed on the meeting minutes was added to the Gantt Chart it would become very cluttered and constantly require updating, so monitoring the progress of smaller tasks through the meeting minutes was an effective way to ensure day-to-day activities are still kept up with.
A a project manager, I too find a good way to measure progress is to determine sequential milestones and schedule meetings to discuss said milestones and progress. During those meetings we would be able to delegate teams, goals and issues on approachign these milestones.
