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.
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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 |