Table 3: Summary of the engineering approach to project control.

Control task

Features

Advantages

Monitoring

For each activity: Start time and progress rate

Opens the way for deeper analyses

Analysis

Breaking the control data according to the WBS and the OBS

Facilitates diagnosis: Locating sources of variances and detecting their causes, and the selection of desired response.

 

Synthesis

 

Re-run of the scheduler

Update the schedule for the whole project indicating where active involvement is required, enables time risk control and improves time EAC.

Re calculate the costs in accordance with the CBS

Assists in identifying opportunities to increase cost effectiveness, improves cost EAC