If you think that overplanning a project—or simply launching one project or another—is the ultimate goal, it’s time to reconsider

these matters. What you should always strive for is steady, systematic progress, which can be achieved through

project progress monitoring.

No matter how important it is to plan a project in advance—and this process should never be underestimated—planning cannot deliver

results or achieve its intended goals without putting the plans and strategies into practice.

Accordingly, project progress monitoring can be understood as part of the broader planning and management process. By tracking what has already been completed and what

has not yet been completed, we can redesign our plans and strategies.

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مثلث التقدم

Based on the points above, monitoring, planning, and management can be seen as interconnected processes, all working in harmony and

toward one ultimate goal: advancing the project.

Planning is the work that comes before a project; without it, we would have no clear destination. It serves as a guide—a light that illuminates the way. As for

monitoring, it follows implementation and allows us to improve, develop, and adjust the strategic plans already in place. Experience and implementation are

The ultimate test and highest standard for any development or change.

Building on these two preceding processes (planning and monitoring), the third side of this triangle—“management”—sets out its methods, objectives, systems, and procedures

based on the two preceding processes, in pursuit of the ultimate goal: advancing projects.

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How do we monitor project progress?

According to writer and author Threver Young, monitoring takes three procedural forms, which can be outlined as follows:

1- القياس

This is a procedural process for determining the progress a project has made, based on formal and informal reports.

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2- التقييم

Here, we review the project as a whole, identify the gains made over the past period, pinpoint where it fell short, and determine the reasons for deviations

from the strategic plan established in advance.

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3- التصحيح

This is the final—and logical—step. Once we have identified the project’s weaknesses and how it deviated from the plan, the next step

is the essential and necessary one: making corrections.

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Problems as warning signals

Monitoring is primarily about observing the present and paying attention to anything unusual or out of the ordinary. This requires a strong ability to anticipate

Matters and events—and predicting everything that may happen in the future based on current events.

Beyond all that, problems serve as a warning bell or alarm: once it sounds, we must begin reengineering things from the ground up,

and take stock of everything we have done so far, so that we can ultimately identify why this project or that one has not progressed.