Review the detailed tasks. Are there tasks that go for, say, 1 month and that have issues associated with them. These are likely to be trouble later. What do you do? Have the team members who are assigned to these tasks break up the tasks into 1–2 week tasks.

Consider the milestones of the project. International projects benefit from many milestones. Why? Because that is what you can review. If you are reviewing work in progress, then it is just verbal review—not very effective. There should be milestones showing up every 2 weeks in each subproject. This not only aids tracking of the work by the project leaders, it also raises the morale of the team since they will feel that they are making more progress.