Feb 1, 2011
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From Calendars to Metrics
There comes a point in any growing organization where you have to shift from calendars as a primary project management tool to metrics.
That point comes when the volume of work, number of resources working and granularity of tasks exceeds any person’s ability to “just eye-ball” project status and resource availability on a calendar or, even on a chart.
Your skill-set then needs to evolve from juggling tasks and keeping things moving to developing project metrics that adequately capture the relevant information on a project so you can a) still keep things moving but also b) have enough information to make plans for the future. These plans include resource allocation decisions, job scheduling, budgeting and taking on new initiatives.
Most organizations generate this kind of information but lack a framework to help collect or use it efficiently (without making a whole other job out of it). This is were project management as a discipline can help, as well as project management software that provides a framework for information.
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