Project Control

Project control is a professional skill

Projects will achieve their goal if they add value to the organisation. Focus on the advantages and threats, stay in control of the costs and learn from the experiences of the past.

In order to keep in control of the projects, the correct management information is crucial. The current insight into the progress, costs and risks is of great importance. These activities are in the domain of project control. The project controller collects, integrates and analyses project information and gives insight and overview. Project control has to do with the form, the methodology and tackling of the individual project and in its underlying relationship. Not the leadership of the project itself. A project controller has no single influence on the content of the project. The project manager always remains accountable for the project.

The Project Controller has continuous contact with project managers through which there is a strong leadership component. The important element here is to maintain the uniformity of the project management. This uniformity is again necessary in order to be able to consolidate and analyse the various project reports.

Project control within Prince2

Prince 2 is a much used project method in order to manage a project. In the Prince2 method, the project control activities are brought into the Project Support Office (PSO). The PSO gives direct support to the project manager. The work activities often consist in the area of reporting and administration

Programma control within MSP

MSP is a method to use in managing a program. A program has as its aim to execute a business target or change and consists of various projects. MSP is connected to Prince2. In the MSP method the program control activities are brought into the program management office. The PMO gives direct support to the program manager. The work activities performed are often in the area of reporting, governance and portfolio management.

Project control and P3O

P3O is a recently developed method used in order to report project information to the line organisation. P3O is an abbreviation for Portfolio Program and Project Office. P3O methodology consists of guidelines for a decision enabling/delivery support structure for organisational changes. A central place in the organisation for all processes, techniques to facilitate projects and programs. With the P3O methodology a project contoller can organise the reporting lines in the direction of the senior management from the business point of view. The translation of the project information into time, costs and quality in consolidated reporting. This guarantees the relationship between business targets and projects.