Measuring Success as a Project Planner: Trust, Communication, and Consistency

Success as a project planner isn’t just meeting deadlines—it’s building trust, providing accurate insights, and demonstrating value, even when outcomes are beyond your control.

Balanced decomposition in a WBS avoids unnecessary complexity and vague scope. Too much or too little detail hinders planning, while clear, appropriate breakdown ensures effective control and tracking.

Contemporaneous documents are real‑time records of events that strengthen project accuracy, support dispute defence, and help reconstruct timelines, making them essential for reliable project controls.

A schedule update review ensures your project schedule accurately reflects progress, logic, delays, and responsibilities—improving credibility and reducing disputes by validating critical paths and changes before submission.

A WBS focuses on deliverables (“what” needs to be produced) while activities are the actionable steps (“how”) required to create those deliverables, keeping planning clear and structured.