Now that you've created your beautiful thousand-line Gantt, it's time to implement the project.
How to track the progress of the activities? At what level of detail should the project manager go down? How to correctly estimate the time left to complete a task?
In this article we answer these 3 questions.
Method 1
Define the % of completion of an activity according to the following scheme:
0%: activity not started
10%: activity started
50%: activities in progress and in line with expectations
90%: activity completed at a level that allows it to start with its successor
100%: activity completed and closed
Method 2:
Define the level of detail at which you want to monitor the progress of the project by making a Gantt that shows all and only the activities that you want to monitor and whose progress is to be tracked.
The level of detail is decided by the project manager. All the activities reported in the Gantt must then be tracked.
Method 3: ask the person in charge of an activity instead of the estimated remaining time, the details of the activities still to be carried out. Many times in good faith even the managers of an activity underestimate the remaining work, but asking them "what remains to be done" gives a more accurate result.