Introduction to Project Management

18 Monitoring and Controlling Project Scope, Project Schedule, and Project Cost

DOI: 10.1201/9781003230649-22

This is a combo chapter in the sense that it contains the monitoring and controlling processes as they relate to the triple constraints of Scope, Schedule, and Cost. Significantly, these processes cover the monitoring and control of the Project Baselines. The first part of this chapter covers Project Scope Control and Scope Validation taken together. The second part focuses on Project Schedule Control, while the third part is concerned with Project Cost Control. This third part elaborates, among others, on Earned Value Management which is an integrated tool used in the monitoring and controlling of both the cost and schedule aspects ...