Monitor & Control Scope Schedule, Cost & Risk

Monitor & Control Scope, Schedule, Cost, Quality, Risk

Monitoring means watching the course.

• Monitoring scope, schedule & cost consumption.
• Measuring scope, schedule & cost consumption.
• Collecting scope, schedule & cost consumption.
• Recording scope, schedule & cost consumption in appropriate organizational process asset like Excel template or Project software..
• Comparing scope, schedule & cost consumption against Project Management Plan or baselines
• Reviewing scope, schedule & cost consumed against pmp
• Understanding the amount of variance.
• Check if this is beyond the control limits defined from Scope, Schedule or Cost.
• Identify & determine the issues causing this variance.
• Determine the impact on forecasts for scope, schedule or cost.
• Reporting project performance including the variance as well as possible solutions and their impacts to mitigate future variance.
• Ensuring all change requests are acted on in a timely manner.
• Preventing unapproved changes from being included in the reported schedule/cost usage.

Controlling means staying the course.

• Uses data from monitor activity to bring actual performance to planned performance.
• Determining & taking corrective &/or preventive actions based on the issues causing the variance.
• Determining the impact of this corrective/preventive actions on any dependent activities, work packages or projects.
• Influencing the behaviors producing changes to schedule/cost baselines.

 Outputs from Monitor & Control Scope, Schedule & Cost

• Work performance Information.
• Change requests
• Scope, Schedule & Cost forecasts.
• Project management plan updates - Scope, Schedule & Cost management plans and baselines.
• Project documents - Scope statement, Schedule & Cost estimates, Issue logs, Risk logs, Change logs.
• Organizational process assets - Lessons learned.

Monitor & Control Quality

Monitoring means watching the course.

• Monitoring quality of deliverable.
• Measuring or check quality of deliverable.
• Comparing the measured quality to quality baseline like quality metrics or requirements, or design to determine variances.
• Record the variances in appropriate organizational process asset like Jira or Quality Center (ALM from HP) or Excel template.
• Reviewing quality variances
• Understanding the amount of variance.
• Check if this is beyond the control limits defined.
• Identify & determine the issues causing this variance.
• Determine the impact on forecasts for scope, schedule or cost.
• Ensuring all change requests are acted on in a timely manner.
• Preventing unapproved changes from being included in the quality reports.

Controlling means staying the course.

• Uses data from monitor activity to bring actual performance to planned performance.
• Determining & taking corrective &/or preventive actions based on the issues causing the variance.
• Determining the impact of this corrective/preventive actions on any dependent activities, work packages or projects.
• Influencing the behaviors producing quality variance.

 Outputs from Monitor & Control Quality

• Quality control measurements
• Validated changes (Validating changes coming from Change Requests)
• Verified deliverable
• Work performance Information.
• Change requests
• Scope, Schedule & Cost forecasts.
• Project management plan updates - Quality & Process improvement management plans.
• Project documents - Quality standards, Agreements, Training plans, Process documents, Issue logs, Risk logs. Change logs.
• Organizational process assets - Lessons learned.

Monitor & Control Risk


Monitoring means watching the course.

• Monitoring identified as well as residual risks. 
• Identifying new risks & retiring risks which no longer exists
• Monitor if project assumptions are still valid
• Measuring effectiveness of risk monitoring process
• Measuring the consumption of contingency reserves
• Recording the consumption of contingency & management reserves in appropriate organizational process asset like Excel template or Project software..
• Comparing reserve consumption against Project Management Plan or baselines
• Reviewing reserve consumed against pmp
• Schedule/Cost/Scope variance can tell if there are opportunities or threats that could impact project.
• Understanding the amount of variance.
• Check if this is beyond the control limits defined for reserves.
• Identify & determine the issues causing this variance.
• Determine the impact on forecasts reserves.
• Reporting project performance including the variance as well as possible solutions and their impacts to mitigate future variance.
• Ensuring all change requests are acted on in a timely manner.
• Preventing unapproved changes from being included in the reported schedule/cost usage.

Controlling means staying the course.

• Uses data from monitor activity to bring actual performance to planned performance.
• Identify corrective &/or preventive actions for the variances.
• Taking corrective &/or preventive actions based on the issues causing the variance.
• Determining the impact of this corrective/preventive actions on any dependent activities, work packages or projects.
• Influencing the behaviors producing changes to schedule/cost baselines.

 Outputs from Monitor & Control Scope, Schedule & Cost

• Work performance Information.
• Change requests
• Project management plan updates - Scope, Schedule & Cost management plans and baselines.
• Project documents - Scope statement, Schedule & Cost estimates, Issue logs, Risk logs, Change logs.
• Organizational process assets - Lessons learned.