PROJECT MONITORING AND CONTROL

Monitoring is the collecting, recording, and reporting of information concerning project performance that the project manager and others wish to know and then, to Control, we use data from monitored activity to bring actual results to planned performance. Project objectives are met when monitored and controlled.

In this workshop we will cover the how-to of collecting measures of project performance, analyzing them to forecast the need for corrective action, disseminating performance information, and managing the change across one or multiple projects.

It will also explore Earned Value Management and other established techniques designed to bring the project back in line with project objectives and constraints, all with the objective of improving current and future execution and avoiding known performance problems.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will:

• Become familiar with the methods and tools to monitor and control projects.
• Understand the logical framework in project design and effective team building
• Prepare a Monitoring and Control plan.
• Apply techniques for controlling the project baseline
• Use earned value management techniques to forecast project performance
• Report project performance
• Apply quality assurance and quality control tools
• Execute recovery steps for projects in trouble
• Confidently apply the principles of monitoring and control in projects.

Learning Contents

• Variance Analysis using Earned Value Management
• Forecasting to Control Project Budgetary and Schedule Concerns
• Managing Change
• Status Reporting Techniques
• Scope Verification – requirements traceability
• Management of Project Records
• Controlling Project Close-out
• Predictive and Adaptive Project Management approaches

• Interpreting information correctly

• Identifying trends and using them to manage proactively

• Handling problems and solutions

• Contract Management

• Understanding decision analysis

• Conducting performance reporting that gets results

Form whom: Members of the project team and all stakeholders

Available as in-plant, Fee: Negotiable

Date:

March: 13 – 14,

July: 8 – 9,

October: 8 – 10, 2025