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Project Time Control
October 23, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Communications Management, Performance Reporting, Project Management Best Practices
Project Time Control
By Michele Berrie, Queensland University of Technology
Finishing a project on time is a customary measure of whether a project has been successful, but many factors may cause a project timeline to change. The Project Plan should have built in contingencies (not necessarily financial). Regular meetings with stakeholders and project team members are an important means of checking the schedule. The project manager should be highly aware of project progress with respect to time and inform the steering committee accordingly.
Steering committee members need a visual overview of project schedule progress, for example, a table of milestones for smaller projects and an MS Project Gantt chart with larger projects. If serious problems occur, the project manager must work with the steering committee to resolve the issues. An alternative is to kill the project.
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a highly successful Australian university with an applied emphasis in courses and research. Based in the city of Brisbane with a global outlook, it has 40,000 students, including 6000 from overseas, (QUT Statistics) and an annual budget of more than AU$500 million. Courses are in high demand and its graduate employment rate is well above the national average for Australian universities.
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