From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules

Improve schedules - Microsoft Project Tutorial

From the course: Project Management Foundations: Schedules

Improve schedules

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- [Narrator] A few simple activities can help you build better schedules and manage them more effectively. First, get training on building schedules. Like this course, for example. When you understand best practices for scheduling, you can build more flexible and realistic schedules that make it easier to manage your project start to finish. Second, institute quality reviews for project schedules. You might simply take time to evaluate your own schedules against a checklist. Or, project managers in your organization can hold review meetings to evaluate each other's schedules for correctness. Third, launch processes to collect accurate progress data and compare that information to plan values. Estimates improve significantly when they're based on historical performance. For larger projects, a project assistant is an invaluable aid to the project manager. The project assistant can create and update the schedule and work on other more routine tasks. That leaves the project manager more time to focus on leading, communicating, and achieving business objectives. These are a few things you can begin practicing to improve your project's schedules and project performance.

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