Project Management

Catch the Overrun While the Project Can Still Absorb It

Dated milestones instead of a percentage somebody feels, tasks with owners and deadlines, hours logged where the work happened, and a budget alert at the point it is still worth having.

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  • Milestone progress
  • Time at task level
  • Budget alerts early
  • Progress you can check

    A milestone is met or it is not. A percentage is a feeling.

  • Work with a name on it

    Tasks under milestones, with owners and dates.

  • Estimate from evidence

    Hours logged on the task, so the next quote is grounded.

  • Overruns forecast

    Raised at 80 percent, not confirmed at 110.

Projects rarely fail late. They are just found out late.

Three gaps account for most of what goes wrong on a delivery, and none of them is a capability problem.

Unmeasured

Progress is a percentage somebody feels

Without milestones, a project is 80 percent done for two months and nobody can say what is left.

Unlogged

Nobody knows what it actually took

Hours are never recorded, so the next estimate is the last guess with a bit added for comfort.

Unwatched

The overrun arrives fully formed

Spend is compared to budget at the end, by which point the project is the thing that has to absorb it.

Neome closes all three by measuring against milestones, logging the hours, and raising the overrun early.

Planning

A plan with milestones, not a start and a hope

A project is linked to its client, carries a timeline broken into dated milestones, has a named project manager and a budget allocated up front. Milestones are what make progress a measurement rather than an impression, because a milestone is either met or it is not.

  • Client-linked projects
  • Dated milestones
  • Budget allocated up front

Tasks

Work assigned to a person, with a date

Tasks sit under milestones with an owner and a due date, and status moves as they are worked. Reminders arrive before a date rather than after it, which is the difference between a plan that is managed and one that is reported on.

  • Owner and due date
  • Status across the workflow
  • Reminders before the date

Time

Log the hours, then estimate from evidence

Time is logged against the task by the person doing it, so effort accumulates where the work happened. That is what turns the next estimate from a guess into a comparison, and it is the only honest way to find out which kinds of work consistently take longer than planned.

  • Task-level time logging
  • Effort per project
  • Estimates from evidence

Budget

See the overrun forming, not the overrun that happened

Spend accrues against the project as labour is logged and expenses are booked, with alerts at the thresholds you set. A forecast overrun raised at eighty percent utilisation is a problem; the same figure at the end is just a number in a report.

  • Spend against budget
  • Threshold alerts
  • Expenses booked to the project

Reporting

One view across every project running

Set a date range and every figure below it is bounded by those dates.

Active projects

What is running?

Every live project with its stage, its owner and its milestone dates, so a portfolio is read rather than assembled the night before the meeting.

Budget utilisation

Where is the overrun forming?

Spend and hours against budget per project, drawn from the tasks and time already recorded, so an overrun is visible while it can still be absorbed.

Overdue tasks

What has slipped?

Tasks past their date grouped by project and owner, which is the earliest honest signal that a delivery date is going to move.

All the features, done right

Projects

Linked to the client they are for.

Milestones

Dated, so progress is measurable.

Project manager

One named owner per project.

Tasks

Owner, due date and status.

Deadline alerts

Before the date, not after.

Time logging

Against the task, by the doer.

Effort tracking

What work actually took.

Budget allocation

Set when the project starts.

Project expenses

Booked against the project.

Threshold alerts

At the point you can still act.

Portfolio view

Every active project together.

Mobile apps

Update a task from anywhere.

Before you move your projects across

The questions delivery teams ask before the first project is planned in Neome.

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