• Project Control: is the establishment of a system to measure
report, and forecast deviations in the project scope, budget, and
schedule.
• The purpose of project control is to adjust the project to meet its
goals by assessing the performance of the project, analyzing
the causes of performance problems, designing changes to
address problems that are determined to need attentions and
implementing those changes through control actions.
• Project control is distinguished from project planning in two
Important ways: 1) project control yields a set of designs,
decisions, and actions, whereas project planning yields a
design and 2) project control is a real time process during the
implementation Not before the implementation begins