Rescuing a late project for freelancers: 6 things you can do

You are out of the schedule and your current project is running late, this simply happened because the project's tasks took more time than expected or the project affected by other projects running at the same time.

Whatever the reason that lead to an overdue project, you need to take action to rescue your project and be able to deliver it in the closest time possible.

There are several ways you can do to rescue your project.

1. Stay Calm
There's no reason to be stressed about it, running late with a project can happen to any freelancer. The problem will not be solved by whining about it or blaming yourself, but by taking action. Take a deep breath and get ready to rescue your project.

2. Turn into your project management
Look at your schedule and evaluate other projects that’s currently running, you don’t want to rescue one project and let other projects go down. Try re schedule other project’s tasks and free up time for you so you can work with the overdue tasks.

3. Start with what holding your project milestones
Determine what’s currently holding each of project milestones and start with tasks that need to be reviewed by your customer so you can get time to finish other overdue tasks.

4. Clear your overdue tasks list
It’s better to work with a small list of overdue tasks rather than a long one, start working with simplest tasks that’s straightforward and required less time.

5. Break down complex tasks
After you finish all the simple tasks of your project, let’s deal with the complex ones. The easiest thing you can do is to break down those complex tasks and transform them to simple tasks that’s easy to work with.

6. Declare a rescue day
If the number of your overdue tasks is more 5 items, you need to schedule a “rescue day”. Block out the entire day and work on your overdue tasks. There may be other tasks also due on that same day, make sure you do those tasks first.

Finally, the best practice is to avoid ending up with overdue tasks and projects, is to be realistic regarding the time you estimate for each task. Also use a good project management software that works for you, you can try using the project package of acclux accounting, it helps you to define your projects, easily create tasks and schedule deadlines. acclux accounting comes with amazing ways to track your project progress like interactive project's dashboard and detailed reports.

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