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Project Management Orientation

Observe performance

After you establish the plans, processes, and standards, you observe how the project is progressing.  In this step, performance information is collected from several sources,  including meetings, reports, briefings, letters, audits, and observations.

Four Steps of Project Control  

The project control process, like many other project management activities, is an iterative process repeated many times throughout the life cycle of a project.  Click each of the following buttons to read about the four steps in project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the project manager, you are responsible for executing these four steps.  Regardless of the business processes that you follow, the project management processes are the same.

1.  Establish Standards
2.  Observe Performance
3.  Compare Planned with Actual Performance
4.  Take Corrective Action
1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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