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Project control is about project planning

Project control involves managing scope, time, cost, and quality to keep projects on track and meet goals. Key components include planning, monitoring, cost and schedule control, risk management, and quality control, often supported by tools like Gantt charts and frameworks such as PMI and Agile. The document also discusses the creation of projects, types of activity links, and the critical path method (CPM) for scheduling.

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Project control is about project planning

Project control involves managing scope, time, cost, and quality to keep projects on track and meet goals. Key components include planning, monitoring, cost and schedule control, risk management, and quality control, often supported by tools like Gantt charts and frameworks such as PMI and Agile. The document also discusses the creation of projects, types of activity links, and the critical path method (CPM) for scheduling.

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Project control is about project planning, scheduling and cost planning

So what is project control;

Project control refers to the processes and methods used to keep a project on track by
managing scope, time, cost, and quality to meet project goals. It involves monitoring and
measuring project performance, identifying variances from the plan, and implementing
corrective actions when necessary. Effective project control helps ensure that projects are
completed on time, within budget, and according to the defined specifications.

Here’s a breakdown of its key components:

1. Planning and Baseline Setting: Establishing a baseline for scope, budget, timeline,
and quality standards so there is a clear benchmark to compare progress against.
2. Monitoring and Reporting: Tracking progress through regular status updates,
milestone reviews, and performance reports to understand where the project stands.
3. Cost Control: Managing project budgets, tracking expenses, and ensuring the project
does not exceed the budget, or implementing corrective actions if it does.
4. Schedule Control: Monitoring timelines, evaluating project milestones, and
addressing any delays or deviations to keep the project moving forward on schedule.
5. Scope Control: Ensuring the project remains within its agreed scope and addressing
"scope creep"—when the project starts expanding beyond its original objectives.
6. Risk Management: Identifying potential risks, assessing their impact, and planning
mitigation or response strategies to manage them effectively.
7. Quality Control: Checking that project deliverables meet the necessary quality
standards, testing products, and ensuring they meet the project's objectives and client
expectations.

Project control tools (such as dashboards, Gantt charts, Earned Value Analysis, etc.) and
frameworks like PMI, PRINCE2, or Agile are often used to support these activities, helping
maintain transparency and alignment between the project team and stakeholders.

In planning you define scope, resources

Scheduling is sequeincing all activites to bring out chatseach activity have their cost

Resources, how many hours, how much per hour.

You will need to track time and cost

You don’t have to know, all infor that you need to know your job will be provided.

Find the project manager, find the production mmanager, construction manager
The project manager will give you the WBS. Work breakdown structure. It is high level
summary of the project, they are not the activities. The construction manager or sup.retendent
will tell you the wbs, you will have to each of the others to identify activities

You key in the activities into the software and it will sequence for you.

A project controller can work anywhere unlike the project mnager.

In big companies, your activities will be provided for you, all u need to do is key into
software

YOU don’t need to know who is responsible for whaat and what. Plan will be provided. In
small companies, you will have to do everything.

Small companies may have big projects. In big projects, They will employ planner, scheduler
and cost control.

You may find yourself working on the client side or contractor side, it is easier to work on the
client site, it is more work working on the contractor side

Enterprise/programs/projects

Creating projects

 Create/identify the enterprise


 Create/identify the program
 Create the project
 Open project
 Create calendar and make the calendar the default calendar
 Create WBS
 Create your activities
 Link the activities or sequence the activities
 Add resources to your activities
 Run the schedule

There are 4 types of links

 Finish to start FS b – a finishes then b starts


 Start to start ss – starts together
 Finish to finish ff -when a completes b completes automatically
 Start to finish sf – not used in the industry – the start of a means the completion of b

There is also lead and lag. Which means you wait before you start the next activity. If it
finishes earlier it is a lead, if it is a one day gap before the next activity is called lag. Negative
is used to indicate lead while lag is positive. However lead is not used in real life projects
hence positive lag means
Red shows critical activities. Longest path but shortest duration.

Free float is the amount of time you delay an activity without delaying the next activity

Total float is the total amount you can delay an activity without delaying the entire project

Overview of CPM Scheduling

The critical path method (CPM) is a graphical representation of the planned sequence of the
work necessary to execute a construction project, which shows the interrelationships and
interdependence of the elements which comprise that project.

• Identifies the dependence and interdependence of all activities in a schedule.

• Clearly demonstrates how a change in one or more activities impacts other activities
in a schedule.

• Provides an accurate and detailed picture of the forecasted completion dates of the
various project activities.

• Can be used to manage the resources and cost associated with each activity.

• Identifies the activities that are critical to the timely completion of the project.

• Indicates the shortest time in which a project can be completed

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