For businesses that run complex, long-term engineering or construction projects, tracking progress on a weekly scorecard can feel impossible. When a project takes nine months to complete, relying on lagging indicators like final project completion or client sign-off will leave you blind to delays until it is too late to fix them. How do we break down these massive lagging deliverables into weekly leading indicators that actually tell us if a project is on track?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

To maintain visibility on long-term projects, you must break these massive deliverables down into weekly, binary leading indicators. Start by identifying the critical milestones in your project lifecycle. On your weekly scorecard, track the percentage of active projects that are currently on track according to their project schedule. You can also measure the weekly completion of engineering design drafts, or the number of client feedback loops completed within forty-eight hours. Another valuable metric is the weekly variance between planned hours and actual hours worked on each project phase. If actual hours are climbing faster than planned, you have an early warning that the project is running over budget. By tracking these weekly, activity-based leading indicators, your leadership team can spot project delays and resource constraints early, allowing you to take corrective action in your Level 10 Meeting™ before a nine-month project turns into a financial loss.

AI never sits in the room. It works before the Level 10 Meeting to prep the data and after the meeting to capture and track what was decided. The 90 minutes stay human: your leadership team, the scorecard, the issues list, and the IDS conversation.