Reporting project slippage

[SupremeSpod]

cowboys

Not at all. No more Indians either

[original PM]

you guys are such amateurs

all deadlines are always met


may have to re-baseline the project every now and then mind....

[suityou01]

you guys are such amateurs

all deadlines are always met


may have to re-baseline the project every now and then mind....

Aaah PMI trained

[Mich the Tester]

<self satisfied git>

Project Manager; 110% of a Test Manager's hourly rate for 1100% of a Test Manager's stress levels.

</self satisfied git>

[Xenophon]

We goofed.

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[minestrone]

Agree. Some tasks might come in under estimate and help get you back on track.
Is it a rookie PM?

I think it is company policy, there is no actual PM assigned to the project but everyone has to report to a PM department which I have never seen before.

I suppose they are an American Financial who mostly use bobs and victors who probably need that level of scrutiny. I'm more used to "just get it finished, I'll say the estimate was how long you took after you finish the job" type stuff.

[original PM]

interestingly enough all of this comes down to who you know and not what you know.

[suityou01]

I think it is company policy, there is no actual PM assigned to the project but everyone has to report to a PM department which I have never seen before.

I suppose they are an American Financial who mostly use bobs and victors who probably need that level of scrutiny. I'm more used to "just get it finished, I'll say the estimate was how long you took after you finish the job" type stuff.

fook me that's odd. Does your project get a name from said PM dept or is it a different PM every day? Kind of like a deli counter

[minestrone]

Have they included an activity in the time reporting called 'time reporting'?

They should, we have 2 timesheet applications.

[Mich the Tester]

They should, we have 2 timesheet applications.

I once advised a CIO who was wondering where all the time disappeared to measure how much time his people were spending on reporting time for 40 different activities in each project (some were working on 5 or 6 projects at a time), plus timesheets, plus time in the HR system. He then got someone to do the measuring, and discovered his division was spending over 2 million euros per year out of a total personnel budget of about 15 million on time reporting. Needless to say, there was a cull of time reporting systems and Project Management systems.

A time reporting system which does not include an activity called 'time reporting' is worse than useless; it is a black hole into which money disappears.