My most successful project management experience ever worked like this: we had a massive Gantt chart showing all of the work we had planned. I added and removed rows daily, updated expected completion dates, and generally rearranged the whole thing. The one thing that never changed was anticipated delivery date. Every week I sent the CTO a report with a snapshot and an explanation of what changed and why. I expected to get yelled at more than once, but he was happy with the sense of control, and the developers enjoyed the flexibility.

It was exhausting and I’m glad I’m not doing project management in my current role.