Tasks stay at ninety percent for weeks. How should progress be measured?
Unverifiable completion reportingReplace subjective percentages with remaining work and objective completion evidence. Keep installation, testing, correction, and acceptance visible instead of treating them as one nearly finished task.
What to do now
- Define evidence for each completion state
- Separate remaining verification work
- Ask owners for finish forecasts
- Close only when agreed criteria are met
When to escalate
A reported completion hides unresolved safety, quality, or acceptance work.
The project manager and relevant commitment owner
Example
A handover item stays open until inspections and client sign-off are complete, even though installation has finished.
Mistake to avoid
Equating physical installation with accepted completion.
Prevent a repeat
Compare forecast versus actual results for comparable tasks, separating effort, elapsed time, waiting and scope change.
Suggested ApprovedFlow setup
- Tasks
- Timesheets
- Resources
Keep planned dates and assumptions with the affected task, compare recorded actuals, and attach the revised forecast for review. See the platform
Related cases
- Every task is on time, but the project is late. What are we missing?Missing schedule relationships
- How do we estimate work we have never done before?High-uncertainty estimation
- The team marks tasks complete without evidence. What should change?Evidence-free completion
- The vendor refuses to share progress evidence. What should we do?Unverifiable supplier delivery