## Tracking: Your Finger on the Pulse

When your project begins, your plan becomes a valuable tool in helping you direct and fine-tune the project. Wielding the plan, you can:

- Track project progress, comparing actual data to original estimates.
- Review resource, scope, and schedule factors to balance your priorities.
- Identify problems that could knock the project off schedule.
- Analyze resource requirements throughout the project, making sure, for example, that no one on your team is overloaded with work.
- Make midstream changes that will help you reach your project goals sooner.

With a project plan, you can easily analyze what is going right and what is going wrong during the project.

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