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Andrew Makar, PMP

November 21, 2005





I have a dream. Instead of sitting through weekly operations reviews and discussing the status of each and every project in the portfolio, I only want to focus on the projects that need assistance.
 
Coincidentally, I often have this dream during these operations reviews. I find myself overscheduled with status meetings from related projects, external reviews and other informational meetings. I'm not the only one who feels like all they do is attend meetings for a living. In my dream, project teams apply objective metrics and shorten status meetings by focusing on the troubled projects that need help. Teams are using earned value metrics to identify these projects and I actually get to eat somewhere other than another meeting.
 
During your weekly operational reviews, do find yourself in a similar scenario? One reason project status meetings last so long is superfluous discussions about projects that are already on track.



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