Chapter 15. Tracking Project Performance

In This Chapter

• Setting the proper project goals

• Keeping track of project performance

• Understanding the benefits and limitations of a PMIS

• Being a fine host for a project status meeting

• Communicating effectively with the appropriate stakeholders

• Communicating good and bad news

Your project is underway and things appear to be going well, or so you think. How do you know how things are really working? Is your project on time, within budget, meeting not just your, but also your stakeholders', expectations? Unless you have a system for measuring and quantifying the performance of your project and all its components, you really don't know whether you're moving things in the right direction.