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Flexible With People and Rigid With Timelines

The Recovering Engineer

Many of them focused on the checklists, charts, graphs, and planning tools necessary to plan and track project progress and milestone completion. I have used task lists and planning tools that include PERT and Gantt charts. Employee Motivation: Compliance or Commitment? I have worked in Microsoft Project. Do that thing.

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Adding Value: A Gentle Reminder

QAspire

Track value delivered, when you tracked through the Gantt Chart? But did you keep that in perspective constantly while executing? Critically evaluate “earned value” for the stakeholders? Make stakeholder’s world a bit better in any way? Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness. Emphasizing compliance with a plan can, under stable conditions, accelerate fruition of a strategy. In the first, it centers on compliance to a pre-determined plan, in the latter on decentralized initiative taking and experimentation.