Question

Project control is a critical success factor for a project’s completion. What are some issues that may surface for what reasons?

Answer 1

Project control and monitoring are phases of any project in which projects are monitored and controlled as per the planning done to make sure that it is moving ahead to achieve the objective of projects within the limits of cost, schedule and quality.

Some of the typical issues that arises during project control phases in projects can be broadly categorised in below reasons:

• Delay in schedule - This may occur due to delay in completing the pervious tasks, shortage of resources or may be due to wrong planning also.
• Overbudget of project - Excess spend of money as compare to plan at any time of project is an issue,. This may be caused due to delay in project, increase in cost of resources , quality issues or wrong planning.
• Quality issue - Quality objective is key parameters for any project. Quality issue may cause closure of project , delay of project or overbudget of project. Absence of strong quality assurance and quality control may cause quality issues.
• Unhappy and unsatisfied Stakeholders : Stakeholders of any project are as important as schedule, cost or quality. Issue related to stakeholders typically due to problems in capturing the requirement from all stakeholders and communication.