Time and Project Tracking Best Practices

Implementing a project monitoring system and improving the way your organization tracks time and projects is a vitally important but often challenging undertaking. To help, we have assembed a series of project tracking best practices articles available here.

Selecting and Deploying an Effective Project Tracking System provides an argument for implementing such a system in the first place, and suggests criteria for selecting the best system for you.

Claiming Government Research Credits describes how effective time tracking can help you better take advantage of government research and development credits (such as Canada's SR&ED program) available to your organization.

The Value of Earned Value introduces the Earned Value method for tracking project progress against plan and explains why it makes sense for quick, accurate project monitoring.

The Practical Use of Earned Value delves deeper into the Earned Value methodology and provides a specific example of its application.

Project Tracking: Are you using the right metrics? explains why most approaches to project tracking tend to misrepresent actual project status, and why the simple indicators Earned Value provides are all you need for an accurate picture of project health.

Lame Excuses from Smart People catalogs the common objections voiced against implementing Earned Value-based project tracking, and offers candid, compelling counter-arguments for each.