Project Control Guideline
Revision Date: July 1, 2002
Revision: 2.1
Product Code: GTA-PMO-GLI-208
Table of Contents
Table of Contents i
List of Figures ii
Figure1: Nine-Step Change Control Process 9 ii
Figure2: Issues Management 10 ii
Revision History iii
1.0 Project Control Guideline 1
List of Figures
Figure1: Nine-Step Change Control Process 9
Figure2: Issues Management 10
Revision History
2.1
July 1, 2002
Wording change “policy to principle/procedure to guideline”
1.0 Project Control Guideline
1.1 Key Process Area Purpose
A. This guideline applies to the following knowledge areas:
Knowledge Area
Applicable?
Integration Management
Scope Management
Y
Time Management
Cost Management
Y
Quality Management
Y
Human Resources Management
Communications Management
Risk Management
Y
Procurement Management
B. The purpose of scope management is to ensure the work performed in a project is necessary to the successful completion. It includes initiation, scope planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control.
C. The purpose of cost management is to ensure a project completes within its approved budget. It includes resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting, and cost control.
D. The purpose of quality management is to ensure the products and services produced by a project satisfy the needs for which the project was undertaken. Quality – the satisfaction of project needs – is a measure of adherence to stated requirements combined with fitness for use. The Quality Management Knowledge Area includes quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control.
E. The purpose of risk management is to ensure the identification, analysis, and appropriate response to the risks encountered by a project. It includes risk management planning, risk identification, qualitative risk analysis, quantitative risk analysis, risk response planning, and
References: Mastering Project Management, James P. Lewis, 1998 Project Management, A Systems Approach to Planning Scheduling and Controlling, Harold Kerzner, 1998 Project Management Body of Knowledge, Project Management Institute (PMI), 1996.