Project Management and Project Control
ISO 10006 defines project management as the planning, organizing, monitoring, and controlling of all aspects of the project in a continuous process to achieve the project's objectives. Project control, an aspect of project management, is defined as the process required to define and execute appropriate actions to ensure the success of the project. The focus of project control is monitoring, analyzing, and comparing planned results with actual results for the purpose of predicting what might happen if current conditions continue.
Project control begins with clear objectives and emphasizes the achievement of the project goals. It involves continuous monitoring of individual project events and elements such as budgets and schedules. Without good project control, the scope, costs, and risk increase and deadlines are missed.
Although tracking and controlling a project's overall performance is addressed directly in the WWPMM Tracking and Control domain, you must also focus on plans and procedures in the following key domains: