Chapter 10
Project Monitoring and Control
Chapter 3 (Module-2) Project Monitoring & Control
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Project Monitoring and Control
Monitoring – collecting, recording, and
reporting information concerning project
performance that project manger and others
wish to know
Controlling – uses data from monitor activity
to bring actual performance to planned
performance
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Project Monitoring and Control
Why do we monitor?
What do we monitor?
When to we monitor?
How do we monitor?
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Why do we monitor?
Simply because we know that things
don’t always go according to plan (no
matter how much we prepare)
To detect and react appropriately to
deviations and changes to plans
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What do we monitor?
Men (human Space
resources) Time
Machines Tasks
Materials Quality/Technical
Money Performance
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What do we monitor?
Inputs Outputs
Time Progress
Money Costs
Resources
Job starts
Material Usage
Job completion
Tasks
Quality/Technical Engineering / Design
Performance changes
Variation order (VO)
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When do we monitor?
End of the project
Continuously
Regularly
Logically
While there is still time to react
As soon as possible
At task completion
At pre-planned decision points (milestones)
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Where do we monitor?
At head office?
At the site office?
On the spot?
Depends on situation and the ‘whats’
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How do we monitor
Through meetings with clients, parties involved in
project (Contractor, supplier,etc.)
For schedule – Update CPA, PERT Charts, Update
Gantt Charts
Using Earned Value Analysis
Calculate Critical Ratios
Milestones
Reports
Tests and inspections
Delivery or staggered delivery
PMIS (Project Management Info Sys) Updating
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Meetings – Some monitoring issues
What problems do you have and what is being done
to correct them?
What problems do you anticipate in the future?
Do you need any resources you do not yet have?
Do you need information you do not have yet?
Do you know anything that will give you schedule
difficulties?
Any possibility your task will finish early/late?
Will your task be completed under/over/on budget?
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Project Control Cycle
PLAN
Specifications
ACTION Project Schedule
Correct Project budget
deviations Resource plan
MONITOR
from plan Vendor contracts
Record status
RE-PLAN as Report progress
necessary Report cost
COMPARE
Actual status
against plan
-Schedule
-Cost
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Project Control
Control – process and activities needed to
correct deviations from plan
Control the triple constraints
time (schedule)
cost (budget, expenses, etc)
performance (specifications, testing results, etc.)
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Summary
Need proper project monitoring and control
mechanisms
Tools available to help in monitoring and
controlling activities
There are human control and management
aspects not covered here
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