This unit covers the processes and techniques for monitoring and controlling a project.

To help you learn how to:

1. Implement a monitoring system for a project
   
2. Ensure all necessary aspects of project operation are controlled
   
3. Ensure that decision-making about project progress and activities is supported by effective information coming from the monitoring system

Following completion of this unit, you will know how to:

1. Identify suitable monitoring techniques for a project and explain how to implement them
   
2. Identify a suitable information flow and reporting process for a specific project
   
3. Create and complete progress and variance reports for a specific project
   
4. Define the closedown and handover requirements for a specific project

Decision-making

• how to establish a suitable decision making process to ensure effective direction of a project
  
• decision-making roles and responsibilities
  
• decision-making techniques
  
• using an effective decision-making process to ensure effective direction of a project and to recover from any deviations from the forecast plan

Data Collection

• how to establish the nature, type and quantity of data needed
  
• the need to identify and use up-to-date and adequate sources of date to underpin the decision-making process
  
• the need to validate data as necessary
  
• ways of presenting the data effectively to inform decision-making