ABSTRACT
Control refers to the collection of tasks you undertake to help ensure that a project or a stage makes progress in line with its plan, or to spot any variances so that you can take prompt corrective action. As Andersen, Grude and Haug point out in Goal Directed Project Management (Kogan Page, 1979), monitoring and control are not the same thing. Monitoring simply collects information for analysis. Control involves doing something when that analysis shows that plan and reality are diverging. Control in a project is a continuous process, part of a management cycle, as illustrated in Figure 18. Control in the management cycle https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315196954/810f26d8-5524-46c0-85a7-330bbabfae78/content/fig18.tif"/>
