Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Controlling & Monitoring

Project Control
  • Monitoring and controlling involves regularly measuring progress to ensure that the project is meeting its objectives and addressing current business needs
  • The Project Manager and other staff monitor progress against plans and take corrective action when necessary
  • Things to monitor and control are scope, cost and schedule

Scope creep

Creating 'After the jump' summaries

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Execution

Project Execution
  • Project Execution is where the real work starts
  • This is where you make use of some of the information you gather during the planning stages
  • Issues that need to be handled along the way
    • Managing the team
    • Relationship with other stakeholder
    • Performance of plan
    • Information distribution
    • Vendor contract administration