Project controls monitor and adjust the cost, schedule and scope of a project to ensure that it is completed within budget, on time and as planned. Quality controls check to make sure that the result ...

Owners must manage capital projects well to keep costs under control and ensure a high-quality product is delivered on time. Good communication, sound procedures and processes, and high-tech tools can ...

Workers conduct one of the heaviest lifts on record at a nuclear plant at the Sanmen nuclear power plant project in China’s Zhejiang province on June 29, 2009. The 1,020-ton auxiliary building ...

In quality planning, the project manager defines and codifies the standards the project will be required to meet to be successful, and how those standards will be achieved and confirmed. Managers ...

Poor quality management can place a permanent stain on any project. To avoid this, the project manager must first determine how the client or the project sponsor defines quality--and then follow suit.

Explore how project management information systems guide each project phase, the tools that support them, and real-world use across industries.

In the first of a three-part series, CIOs frustrated by project management pitfalls in Agile methodologies and techniques like Scrum will learn to plug leaks of time and costs that threaten ...

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