Project Monitoring and Control
Monitoring and Controlling are processes needed to track,
review, and regulate the progress and performance of the project. It also
identifies any areas where changes to the project management method are
required and initiates the required changes.
The Monitoring & Controlling process group includes eleven
processes, which are:
- Monitor
and control project work: The
generic step under which all other monitoring and controlling activities
fall under.
- Perform
integrated change control: The
functions involved in making changes to the project plan. When changes to
the schedule, cost, or any other area of the project management plan are
necessary, the program is changed and re-approved by the project sponsor.
- Validate
scope: The activities involved
with gaining approval of the project's deliverables.
- Control
scope: Ensuring that the scope
of the project does not change and that unauthorized activities are not
performed as part of the plan (scope creep).
- Control
schedule: The functions involved
with ensuring the project work is performed according to the schedule, and
that project deadlines are met.
- Control
costs: The tasks involved with
ensuring the project costs stay within the approved budget.
- Control
quality: Ensuring that the quality
of the project?s deliverables is to the standard defined in the project
management plan.
- Control
communications: Providing for the
communication needs of each project stakeholder.
- Control
Risks: Safeguarding the project
from unexpected events that negatively impact the project's budget,
schedule, stakeholder needs, or any other project success criteria.
- Control
procurements: Ensuring the project's
subcontractors and vendors meet the project goals.
- Control
stakeholder engagement: The
tasks involved with ensuring that all of the project's stakeholders are
left satisfied with the project work.