I posted a new article on the Blog Orange Business Live.

As a Chinese doctor, who is paid to keep his clients in good health rather than to look after them when they are sick, the project manager has to follow the vital signs of his project, and to address them before it seriously gets sick.

• Definition and implementation of concrete measures
• Critical path
• Respect for the schedule (variance of + or – 10 %)
• Current efforts and results reached compared to plan
• Projected costs and actual spend
• Quality of the deliverables
• Open Problems (number, time of resolution, age)
• Periodicity of reviews
• Management and control of the risks
• Morale of the team and human aspects
• Participation of the sponsor, involvement / satisfaction of the customer
• Anticipation by the trend analysis of the indicators

Read the full article and let me know which other vital signs of projects should be watched.