TenStep Supplemental Paper ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 30 January 2004 Apply These Ten Techniques to Get Your Project Back on Schedule People who have worked on project teams know that there is a lot that can go wrong that can result in a project trending over its deadline date. For instance, some of the work may be harder than originally anticipated. You may have turnover on the project that results in having to get new people up-to-speed. Sometimes you discover that activities were simply underestimated. Regardless of how you get there, many times you will find that you are trending beyond your committed deadline date. If you discover that happening, the first obligation of the project manager is to try to determine the cause. If you look for remedies without knowing the cause, you are susceptible to having the situation re-occur over time. What should you do after you know the cause? Should you notify the client and push the project end date out further? Not yet. The first obligation of the project manager and project team is to try to make corrections that will get the project back on track again. If you are trending over your deadline at the beginning of a long project, you have many options available to you. If you are toward the end of the project, there may be fewer options available. Look at this list of ten techniques and see which ones can be applied to your ...