Maintaining Control During Project Execution 183Taking the time to reflect on problems may help you and
others in your organization learn from your experiences.
Project Manager’s Checklist for Chapter
❏ Project control does notmean dictating to team members
how to perform their activities or roles.❏ The project control process should focus on gathering and
analyzing information that will optimize decision-making.❏ The project manager must gather information and insight
on the past, present, and future when making decisions on
guiding the course of the project.❏ Essential to the information-gathering process is free,
open, and honest communication between members of the
project team and the project leader.❏ Corrective action should resolve problems in a way that
minimizes losses to project targets (schedule, cost, func-
tionality, and quality) at the lowest additional risk.❏ Decisions on corrective action should be influenced by the
preferences of stakeholders. Try to determine which tar-
gets—schedule, cost, functionality, or quality—are most
important to them.