When you have collected appropriate performance data on your project, you compare its current status with your standards and expectations.
This step answers two questions:
How is the project doing? And, if deviations from the original project plan have occurred, what caused the deviations?
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.