Goal for January 2010 | Project management | Forum

I like the idea of setting monthly, or roughly-monthly goals for the project to keep us on track.  Nothing bad happens if we miss a goal, of course, it's just something to aim for.

Bearing in mind that the project is just starting up, doesn't have a lot of people working on it yet, and that late December / early January are bad times for productivity due to holidays, I think the first sensible date for such a goal deadline would be the end of January 2010.

I think a sensible and achievable goal is to have a complete estimated cost of the project (sans labour, property, etc – just equipment and materials).  This timeframe gives us around 3 monthly reports (end of Nov, end of Dec, end of Jan) for each workgroup to figure out at least a ballpark cost for all of their equipment.  This figure might well be an important bit of advertising for us, if it is low enough to be impressive.