Question

Staff in the IT organization are often assigned to one or more project teams and are accountable for task delivery. Explain how you would ensure that the employee is meeting project deadlines.

Answer 1

Employee deadline can be tracked with the help of many management techniques:

1. Weekly review of the task assigned and evaluating its progress so that planning can be done to achieve a deadline
2. Daily tracker for the work done on a particular day
3. With the help of ERP tool to track daily or weekly work
4. Effective reporting mechanism and tools
5. Effective reporting matrix, so that true information is cascaded in a hierarchy and hence work, can be tracked in order to close on time
6. Providing assistance and aligning extra resource wherever is applicable to help an employee in achieving deadlines.
7. Proper manpower management and intra team help