Your Partnerships team is struggling to track project progress. What are you doing wrong?

Whenever there is communication gaps within the team or between the team and stakeholders, it can lead to a lack of awareness regarding project progress. Fostering communication channels and ensuring that regular updates are shared will help us overcome this problem. Secondly, it is failure in having a clean and effective Reporting Mechanisms. If there's a lack of reporting mechanisms i.e if the reports generated are not informative, tracking progress becomes challenging. Implementing effective reporting processes is mandatory to monitor the developments and project status. Clear planning & commitment to addressing challenges promptly are essential for successful project management.

To stay on top of project progress, its crucial to begin with a clear outline of what can be achieved and who’s responsible for what. Ensuring everybody knows their roles cuts down on confusion. Equally important is setting goals that are actually feasible and keeping everybody in the loop with a centralised tracking system. This way no update or task slips through the cracks. Regular and clear communication keeps the team aligned, and an effective reporting strategy helps spot issues before they balloon. It’s all about planning well, communicating clearly, and adapting as you go.

Clear Communication Channels: Ensure everyone knows how to communicate effectively to avoid misunderstandings. Defined Goals and Objectives: Set clear, measurable goals to provide direction and track progress accurately. Effective Project Management Tools: Upgrade to modern project management software for easier tracking and collaboration. Task Assignment and Follow-up: Assign tasks clearly with defined timelines and follow up to ensure completion. Regular Reporting and Accountability: Implement regular progress reporting to keep everyone informed and accountable for their tasks.

Often partnership teams struggle with tracking the right level of detail at specific stages of a partner's journey. This is typically due to a lack of consistency in processes and motions for partner recruitment, engagement, enablement, and collaboration.

Algumas armadilhas comuns no acompanhamento de projetos s?o subestimar o tempo necessário, ignorar riscos potenciais, falta de comunica??o eficiente e n?o ajustar o plano conforme necessário.

Effectively project tracking hinges on straightforward strategies and tools. I recall a big project where despite having advanced management software, the outcome was not what we could have achieved because the team were reliant on this system without being fully aligned outside of it. It’s a common over-reliance that sophisticated tools can get you there all on the same page: rather they can help track continued alignment. Matt’s insight about structuring the partner’s journey is crucial - with clear measurable milestones. During another former project we used something as simple as a shared Google sheet - for transparency and accessibility. In fact I think its simplicity helped us align and focus on what was important.

Mapping a partner's journey with critical phases broken down into discretely tracked segments that have consistent metrics and milestones provides the structure necessary for aligned tracking.

Tracking partnerships project progress isn’t just boxticking: it’s about valuing your work, demonstrating that value quantitatively, while all the while maintaining the curiosity to analyse and reflect as you go along. As the saying goes: “we measure what we value - and we value what we measure.” Tracking effectively sharpens performance, improves quality, bolsters credibility, and keeps you throughly on top of the progress in your partnership projects.

Para iniciar um bom acompanhamento de projeto, é essencial estabelecer metas claras, desenvolver um plano detalhado, atribuir responsabilidades específicas, definir indicadores de progresso, estabelecer canais eficazes de comunica??o, antecipar possíveis desafios e garantir a flexibilidade para ajustar o plano, se necessário.

Consider the partnership lifecycle and remember that it's always in motion - from recruitment to engagement to enablement to cooperative GTM to continuous development and growth.

Acompanhar um projeto é crucial, pois permite identificar desvios em rela??o ao plano original, antecipar problemas, ajustar estratégias, manter a equipe alinhada, assegurar o cumprimento de prazos e garantir a entrega de resultados, conforme as expectativas.