10.1. Chapter Introduction
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
- Explain the importance of designing good monitoring practices.
- Describe elements of effective project monitoring and controlling.
- Detail how to decide what to monitor and when, and list some useful items to monitor.
- Distill monitoring information into reports that are useful to different stakeholders.
- Describe the process of quality planning.
- Explain how linearity bias can mislead assessment of project progress.
- Describe the inputs required for an earned value analysis.
- Explain a time-phased budget.
- Calculate and interpret the various earned value analysis metrics.
