Riding the Wave

Chapter 13Monitoring and ControlTracking Project Progress

DOI: 10.1201/9781003201557-15

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

H. James Harrington, Consultant, Quality Guru, Author

One of the main purposes of project communications management, which we just covered, is to coordinate and track project execution and monitor performance and report on progress, keeping the project on target to achieve its goal. As the project plan moves into the project execution phase and work begins, the team and the project’s vendors and contractors will begin reporting ...