When it's time to give the dreaded progress report on your project's status, it's easy to feel defeated when delays start accruing and resources are pushed to the max. How can you ensure your project stays on track? And how can you address these problems before they arise?
Simply put, that's the purpose of schedule management. In reality, many project managers do not adhere to the fundamentals of managing a schedule with all of the proper inputs needed. You also don't need to be new to project management to find yourself fighting with Microsoft Project or any other scheduling tool. Gantt charts have seemed daunting to all of us at some point, and it can be very frustrating to build an efficient schedule.
In this newsletter issue, we highlight the basics of schedule management, and our article guide walks through all the elements that make up a Gantt chart as well as the steps needed to build a good project schedule and who is responsible for managing it.
