{"id":20816,"date":"2020-01-28T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=20816"},"modified":"2020-01-28T01:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:04:13","slug":"project-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/project-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Progress Tracking: How Can It Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/quickscrum.com\/Images\/article_detail\/failure-of-projects-1.png\" alt=\"\u0635\u0648\u0631\u0629 \u0630\u0627\u062a \u0635\u0644\u0629\" width=\"714\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">If you think that overplanning a project\u2014or simply launching one project or another\u2014is the ultimate goal, it\u2019s time to reconsider <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">these matters. What you should always strive for is steady, systematic progress, which can be achieved through <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">project progress monitoring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">No matter how important it is to plan a project in advance\u2014and this process should never be underestimated\u2014planning cannot deliver <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">results or achieve its intended goals without putting the plans and strategies into practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">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<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> has not yet been completed, we can redesign our plans and strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>\u0645\u062b\u0644\u062b \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u062f\u0645<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Based on the points above, monitoring, planning, and management can be seen as interconnected processes, all working in harmony and <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">toward one ultimate goal: advancing the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Planning is the work that comes before a project; without it, we would have no clear destination. It serves as a guide\u2014a light that illuminates the way. As for <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">monitoring, it follows implementation and allows us to improve, develop, and adjust the strategic plans already in place. Experience and implementation are <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The ultimate test and highest standard for any development or change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Building on these two preceding processes (planning and monitoring), the third side of this triangle\u2014\u201cmanagement\u201d\u2014sets out its methods, objectives, systems, and procedures <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">based on the two preceding processes, in pursuit of the ultimate goal: advancing projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\"><strong>How do we monitor project progress?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">According to writer and author Threver Young, monitoring takes three procedural forms, which can be outlined as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>1- \u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u0633<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"blfwncu blfwncu-clearfix blfwncu-post-middle blfwncu-float-center blfwncu-align-center blfwncu-column-1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"blfwncu-69289-986840851\" class=\"blfwncu-container blfwncu-type-code\" data-adid=\"69289\" data-type=\"code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">This is a procedural process for determining the progress a project has made, based on formal and informal reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>2- \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u064a\u064a\u0645<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">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 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">from the strategic plan established in advance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>3- \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0635\u062d\u064a\u062d<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">This is the final\u2014and logical\u2014step. Once we have identified the project\u2019s weaknesses and how it deviated from the plan, the next step <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">is the essential and necessary one: making corrections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Problems as warning signals<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">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 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Matters and events\u2014and predicting everything that may happen in the future based on current events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Beyond all that, problems serve as a warning bell or alarm: once it sounds, we must begin reengineering things from the ground up, <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">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.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u0625\u0630\u0627 \u062a\u0635\u0648\u0631\u062a \u0623\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0641\u0631\u0627\u0637 \u0641\u064a \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062e\u0637\u064a\u0637 \u0644\u0644\u0645\u0634\u0631\u0648\u0639\u060c \u0623\u0648 \u062d\u062a\u0649 \u0625\u0646 \u0638\u0646\u0646\u062a \u0623\u0646 \u0645\u062c\u0631\u062f \u0625\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0642 \u0647\u0630\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0634\u0631\u0648\u0639 \u0623\u0648 \u0630\u0627\u0643 \u0647\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0647\u062f\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u0647\u0627\u0626\u064a\u061b \u0641\u0623\u0646\u062a \u0628\u062d\u0627\u062c\u0629 \u0625\u0644\u0649 \u0625\u0639\u0627\u062f\u0629<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[6425,3307,18843,20654,20655,20190],"class_list":["post-20816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-6425","tag-3307","tag-18843","tag-20654","tag-20655","tag-20190"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}