PMP® in Depth: Project Management Professional Certification Study Guide for the PMP® Exam

Part IVMonitoring and Controlling the Project

Monitoring and Controlling the Project

You need to continually monitor and control your project. In general, monitoring means watching the course, and controlling means acting to either stay the course or move away from the wrong course. When applied to project management, you monitor the project via activities such as taking performance measurements to see that it is on the track set by the project management plan, and you control the project to keep it on track and to bring it back on track if it falls off. The core of monitoring and controlling the project includes collecting the work performance information—the raw data—from the project’s execution and analyzing it for performance, which includes ...