What is Project Control?? What is Proj Cont Managment

In my humble opinion....

Project Control is that element in project that keep it on tracks, on time, within budget....

I can add quality but I think the quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) guys/gals may object.

We will focus on time (schedule) and cost (budget).

Cheers,

Sensei

IF

Project Control keep track of project relating to time, then, HOW ?????

IF

Project Control keep track of project relating to cost or budget, then, HOW ?????

any bright idea for discussing????

Cheers,

Sensei

Before we move further,

we have to understand "What is a Project?"

A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service, which brings about beneficial change or added value.

Project Management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources (3m: Manpower, Money, Machineries) in such a way that the project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.

The challenge of project management is to ensure that a project is delivered within defined constraints eg.: time, cost and quality.

This is also where the discipline of Project Control, Project Control Management, Project Control Manager, play a major pro-active part in the overall in project management.

Cheers,

Sensei

to recap:

Project controls are systems used to plan, schedule, budget, and measure the performance of a project/program.

Project control is also that element of a project that keeps it on-track, on-time, and within budget.

Project control begins early in the project with planning producing baseline plans and ends late in the project with post-implementation review, having a thorough involvement at each step in the project process and project life cycle.

Cheers,

Sensei