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Project Management Orientation

Project Management and Project Control   

ISO 10006 defines project management as the planning, organizing, monitoring, and controlling of all aspects of the project in a continuous process to achieve the project's objectives.  Project control, an aspect of project management, is defined as the process required to define and execute appropriate actions to ensure the success of the project.  The focus of project control is monitoring, analyzing, and comparing planned results with actual results for the purpose of predicting what might happen if current conditions continue.
  
Project control begins with clear objectives and emphasizes the achievement of the project goals.  It involves continuous monitoring of individual project events and elements such as budgets and schedules.  Without good project control, the scope, costs, and risk increase and deadlines are missed.


The Key Elements Required to Control the Project  

Although tracking and controlling a project's overall performance is addressed directly in the WWPMM Tracking and Control domain, you must also focus on plans and procedures in the following key domains:

1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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