Tracking: Your Finger on the Pulse

When your project begins, your plan becomes a valuable tool in helping you direct and fine-tune the project. Wielding the plan, you can:

Track project progress, comparing actual data to original estimates.
Review resource, scope, and schedule factors to balance your priorities.
Identify problems that could knock the project off schedule.
Analyze resource requirements throughout the project, making sure, for example, that no one on your team is overloaded with work.
Make midstream changes that will help you reach your project goals sooner.

With a project plan, you can easily analyze what is going right and what is going wrong during the project.