What is Trending ? How does it Work ?

• Incremental measurement of progress over short or long periods of Time
• Comparison of incremental planned progress with incremental actual progress
• Identifies all areas where shortfall in progress occurs
• Quantifies the shortfall in progress as a percentage and in terms of manhours earned / planned and spent (actual)
• Programme Recovery Targets can be set, i.e. do more work each week than planned
• Trending relies heavily on; ­ Comprehensive System of bottom/up information gathering both manual and computer based
• Detailed and accurate report writing, record keeping and progress input
• Interactive database computer applications