Your robot assembly is behind schedule. How do you ensure your team stays on track despite delays?
Falling behind on your robot assembly schedule can be stressful, but there are strategies to help your team regain momentum. Here’s how you can ensure progress:
What strategies have you found effective for managing project delays?
Your robot assembly is behind schedule. How do you ensure your team stays on track despite delays?
Falling behind on your robot assembly schedule can be stressful, but there are strategies to help your team regain momentum. Here’s how you can ensure progress:
What strategies have you found effective for managing project delays?
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Be transparent with the team and let them know that these things happen. What is important is to learn from these shortcomings for the future. Identify bottlenecks and reasons for delay. Setup a plan with clear milestones and schedule dailies if needed to ensure fast iterations and alignment. If the delay is too big, identify optimizations and parts of the project that you could drop to ensure the goals are meant with the minimum requirements. Finally, start preparing the stakeholders for the potential outcome to avoid last minute surprises.
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1st let all team members know, we all falling back on schedule. 1st Outcome - They will solve the problem and get back on track. 2nd Outcome - They will tell you the reason for falling short on schedule. Now your planning comes in and you have multiple methods to get them back on track. You can set priorities, optimize resource allocation, speed up pending deliverables etc. as per on going project scenario.