ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the ways in which charts, diagrams, photographs and computer technology can help people who control projects. Histograms are also sometimes called bar charts. Histograms are particularly valuable for showing daily resource requirements for a project, and they will indicate potential resource overloads or idle times. High visibility dashboards are being enabled by a new breed of business intelligence software that can consolidate and integrate data from multiple project control software tools. Line of balance charts exist in three quite different forms, each of which is intended to show particular aspects of project progress requirements related to a particular calendar date. In the project controls context a dashboard can display multiple objects, such as Gantt charts, histograms, S-curves and pie charts. Dashboards can also include objects that more closely resemble automobile gauges showing project performance and RAG indicators.
