In
project planning, a slippage is the act of missing a
deadline. It can be an arbitrary
milestone put in place to help track progress.
To avoid slippage, one must plan their
project
A project is any undertaking, carried out individually or collaboratively and possibly involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a particular goal.
An alternative view sees a project managerially as a sequence of even ...
s (especially research) carefully to avoid delays in
schedule
A schedule or a timetable, as a basic time-management tool, consists of a list of times at which possible tasks, events, or actions are intended to take place, or of a sequence of events in the chronological order in which such things are i ...
. Using
Gantt charts and timeline diagrams can help.
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