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Software Project Management in Practice
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Software Project Management in Practice

by Pankaj Jalote
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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11.1. PROJECT TRACKING

Let's first examine basic project tracking at Infosys. Once a detailed project plan is made—in which all schedulable tasks are listed along with their start and end dates and the people assigned to them—at the very least the project manager must track the execution of these tasks. That endeavor constitutes activities tracking. In addition, a project manager must track the unresolved issues that crop up and the defects that are detected. The outcome of this tracking is captured in the status report of the project. This status report is also distributed to senior management and the customer, thus ensuring that they have visibility into the project.

11.1.1. Activities Tracking

One of the first tasks in project tracking is ...

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