Stay on time with your clients and follow your work progress

By acclux team May 15 , 2014

In today's highly competitive marketplace, delivering best quality projects on time is the concern of thousand of small business. It's also important because delivering on time will build the reputation of your business in your market, but it's also important to get new projects and new clients which will lead to your business growth.

Meeting project deadlines can be accomplished by adapting simple techniques and practices.

Define your project
At the start of each project you need to define your project goal and scope, project milestones, deadlines for those milestone, project deadline and the responsibilities of each team member.

It's also important to clearly determine your project's tasks, time allocated for each task to be accomplished and who will do each job. Defining project's task is important, even if you are working alone or if you are working with a small team as it will help you to set a realistic project deadline.

Having all this information cleared from day one will have a big impact on your project flow and eventually project delivery.

Follow your project process
It's important to know where you are and Whether you're working as planned or not. It's necessary to keep track of your work progress to make any necessary adjustment to your project schedule to be able to deliver on time.

Have a contingency time
Not every project always gets in the way it plans, there may be factors that delay your project's progress. You always need to expect the unexpected by having a risk list so you will be ready to react and you can stay ahead of them, which will reduce the impact of these risks on your project. Also, it's a good practice to add extra days for emergency in your project planning so there will be no delays in your project delivery.

Be Flexible
Having a plan for your project is essential, but be willing to adapt new ideas and ways to finish each project task is necessary to present your project on time.

Learn the Lessons
With every project, there's an opportunity to learn and do things better.
It's a good practice to review your completed projects and determine what went well and what went wrong. Being able to capture those lessons will help you to deliver future projects in less time, for less cost.

Get the Benefits of Project Management designed for Small Businesses
The easiest and most effective way to follow your project process is by using project management software. Finding the project management tool that's just right for your business will help you to execute projects effectively and efficiently. You don't want to be stuck in complicated project management that will waste your time rather than saving it.

It's better to use on cloud project management as it will give you the opportunity to access your data from everywhere and collaborate better with your team. That's exactly what acclux accounting will help you to achieve. acclux accounting is on cloud accounting and project management software that helps you to define your projects, easily assign tasks to the appropriate users, schedule deadlines and estimate the amount of time to complete tasks. acclux accounting comes with amazing ways to track your project progress like interactive project's dashboard and detailed reports.